The Complete Plain Words | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Plain_Words


00:00:50 1 Background
00:03:44 2 iPlain Words/i, 1948
00:06:15 3 iABC of Plain Words/i, 1951
00:09:01 4 iThe Complete Plain Words/i, 1954
00:11:02 5 1973 revision by Bruce Fraser
00:13:41 6 1986 revision by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut
00:15:28 7 2014 revision by Rebecca Gowers
00:17:28 8 See also
00:17:57 9 Notes and references
00:18:09 10 Sources
00:19:46 11 External links



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The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954. It has never been out of print. It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of HM Treasury, Plain Words (1948) and ABC of Plain Words (1951). The aim of the book is to help officials in their use of English as a tool of their trade. To keep the work relevant for readers in subsequent decades it has been revised by Sir Bruce Fraser in 1973, by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut in 1986, and by the original author's great-granddaughter Rebecca Gowers in 2014.
All the editions until that of 2014 were published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). The most recent is issued by an imprint of Penguin Books.