A dictionary of Modern English Usage: Oxford dictionary.Modern English

No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Within a few years, people no longer felt it necessary even to mention the title and talked simply of 'Fowler'. Adjectives soon followed—Fowlerian, Fowlerish, Fowleresque—and he eventu- ally received the ultimate linguistic accolade, of being turned into a common noun. The practice continues. In February 2008 William F. Buckley wrote a piece for the United Press Syndicate on the verbal traps used by Obama and Clinton in the race for the democratic nomination: it was entitled 'A Fowler's of Polities'