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Gowers

Proper noun

Meaning

Gowers

A surname.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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After Gowers retired from the civil service at the end of the war,Gowers's public service career continued as chairman of several Royal Commissions and other bodies until 1953, and on the board of the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases until 1957. Source: Internet

Gowers (1951), p. 146 Gowers and his successors revised their advice as usage changed over the years. Source: Internet

Gowers (1951), p. 9 In her biography of Gowers, his granddaughter Ann Scott uses the form "Gowers' room"; in the extensive biographical sketch that prefaces the 2014 edition of Plain Words, his great-granddaughter Rebecca Gowers uses "Gowers's room". Source: Internet

Gowers (1951), p. iii The new work consisted of articles, mostly brief, on points of vocabulary, grammar, construction, punctuation and style, set out in alphabetical order, beginning with "Abstract words" and ending with "Write". Source: Internet

Gowers (1951), p. iv The Complete Plain Words, 1954 By 1954 both books were still selling well. Source: Internet

Gowers (1951), pp. 1–2 The entry on "Write" was an example of one of the short articles on particular words; it pointed out that "I wrote to you about it" needs the "to" but "I wrote you a letter" does not. Source: Internet

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