Bennett’s Wordfinder A handy companion to the second edition of the world’s most famous book on modern English usage Introduction It is frustrating when you cannot find information that you think must be in the second edition (1965) of the world’s most famous book on modern English usage (which, for reasons made necessary by law, I shall call that book). I made this word finder to help you find words that are not listed alphabetically in that book. The word abdomen is listed in its natural place in that book, so it is pointless to include abdomen in this word finder. If you want to know something about the word referral, however, you will not be able to find it listed under the r’s in that book. This word finder includes the word referral, and it asks you to look under the article headed -al nouns. Always look in that book first. If Fowler listed a word alphabetically, that word is probably not listed in this word finder. Sometimes a word will appear in this word finder as well as appearing in alphabetical order in that book. This means I have found another reference to the word that you may not have found by looking at the alphabetical listing in that book only; protagonist, for example, appears seven times. Two square brackets after a word mean that I have inserted something I thought would help you. (For example, immoral]] refers the reader to amoral even though immoral is not mentioned in that book under amoral.) You will find many words repeated rather than being listed once with several references being set off, as in most indexes. This saved me a lot of work, and it will not inconvenience you. Set in Times 9/9 and alphabetically sorted using Microsoft Word 6.0. Page layout done on Adobe Pagemaker 6.0. 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