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18-581: Sample News Group was founded by George Raymond Sample, Jr. (1924–2008). Sample was married to a woman named Janet. As of October 2022, George "Scoop" Sample ( né  George Raymond Sample III ; born 1952), one of eight children of George Sample Jr., is the CEO. Scoop's hometown is Corry, Pennsylvania . The group is also actively managed by Scoop's wife, Marlene Sample ( aka "Sissie" Kane; née  Marlene Sue Kane ; born 1951). The family of Joseph Franklin Biddle sold

36-625: A birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née

54-577: A man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over the e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,

72-437: A usage dictionary that incorporated corpus linguistics data; and the 2015 fourth edition, revised and re-titled Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , was edited by Jeremy Butterfield, as a usage dictionary. Informally, readers refer to the style guide and dictionary as Fowler's Modern English Usage , Fowler , and Fowler's . In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , H. W. Fowler's general approach encourages

90-572: A company partially owned by Brower. Two other weeklies and some websites were also included in the sale. Brower's company had acquired the two dailies as well as the Rutland Reader and the Central Vermont Reader in 2016; they are now both owned by Sample. Also in 2018, Sample sold its Chester, Vermont paper The Message for the Week to KMA Publishing, who ended its publication. In early 2022,

108-486: A direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms. He opposed pedantry, and ridiculed artificial grammar rules unwarranted by natural English usage, such as bans on ending a sentence with a preposition , rules on the placement of the word only , and rules distinguishing between which and that . He classified and condemned every cliché , in

126-421: Is a matter of regret that we had not, at a certain point, arranged our undertakings otherwise than we did.   ... This present book accordingly contains none of his actual writing; but, having been designed in consultation with him, it is the last fruit of a partnership that began in 1903 with our translation of Lucian . The first edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage was published in 1926, and then

144-416: Is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote

162-582: The British Expeditionary Force in the First World War (1914–1918), Henry dedicated the first edition of the Dictionary to his late brother: I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied. He had a nimbler wit, a better sense of proportion, and a more open mind, than his twelve-year-older partner; and it

180-454: The 1996 edition was published as Fowler's Modern English Usage . The fourth edition, Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , was published in 2015, edited by Jeremy Butterfield. The modernisation of A Dictionary of English Usage (1926) yielded the Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (1999), edited by the lexicographer Robert Allen , which is based upon Burchfield's 1996 edition;

198-613: The Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company to Sample in October 1991; the deal included Huntingdon 's Daily News , as well as three other publications. In 2018, Sample purchased The Times Record and the Journal Tribune from Reade Brower . That same year, Sample acquired two dailies in Vermont, sister papers Rutland Herald and The Times Argus , purchasing them from Vermont Community Media,

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216-467: The company acquired Bee Group Newspapers from the Measer family. The group, as listed on their website in October 2023, owns the following: Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto

234-432: The course of which he coined and popularised the terms battered ornament , vogue words , and worn-out humour , while defending useful distinctions between words whose meanings were coalescing in practice, thereby guiding the speaker and the writer away from illogical sentence construction, and the misuse of words. In the entries "Pedantic Humour" and "Polysyllabic Humour" Fowler mocked the use of arcane words (archaisms) and

252-559: The group announced they had introduced a new publisher and a new VP of digital development to serve its holdings in southwestern Pennsylvania. later in 2022, the Titusville News-Journal was started by Sample. The Batavia Daily News and Livingston County News of Livingston County, New York and Genesee County, New York were purchased in 2023, from the Watertown, New York –based Johnson Newspaper Corporation. In November 2024,

270-523: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . A Dictionary of Modern English Usage A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage , pronunciation, and writing. Covering topics such as plurals and literary technique , distinctions among like words ( homonyms and synonyms ), and

288-460: The use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Hence, the 1926 first edition remains in print, along with the 1965 second edition, edited by Ernest Gowers , which was reprinted in 1983 and 1987. The 1996 third edition was re-titled as The New Fowler's Modern English Usage , and revised in 2004, was mostly rewritten by Robert W. Burchfield , as

306-470: The use of unnecessarily long words. Widely and often cited, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is renowned for its witty passages, such as: Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , Henry W. Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), wrote and revised The King's English (1906), a grammar and usage guide. Assisted in the research by Francis, who died in 1918 of tuberculosis contracted (1915–16) whilst serving with

324-407: Was reprinted with corrections in 1930, 1937, 1954, and in 2009, with an introduction and commentary by the linguist David Crystal . The second edition, titled Fowler's Modern English Usage , was published in 1965, revised and edited by Ernest Gowers . The third edition, The New Fowler's Modern English Usage , was published in 1996, edited by Robert Burchfield ; and in 2004, Burchfield's revision of

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