User talk:AnnScottGowers

Welcome
Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions so far. I hope you like it here! It is a particular pleasure for me to welcome you, because Sir Ernest Gowers is one of my heroes. I have cherished Plain Words these forty years and more.

I've taken the liberty of moving your note about yourself to a separate user page in your name. (This is a frightful breach of Wikipedia etiquette on my part and I hope you'll excuse my well-meant interference and won't tell anybody.)

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I'm at your service at my talk page to help with any Wikipedia arcana or anything else. When you have settled in I'll be sticking a friendly oar in at the two main Gowers articles, which I hope you'll think helpful. Meanwhile, "Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!" – Tim riley (talk) 00:09, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

AnnScottGowers, you are invited to the Teahouse
Thank you to Tim Riley for your comments. I am glad you are a fan of Ernest Gowers and Plain Words. A new revision (based on the original text, but with annotations) will be coming out next year.

I don't know whether this is the right way to respond, but there does not seem to be a 'reply' button on your comment. I would welcome suggestions about the pages I have edited. Some of the links at the bottom could be improved I suspect (I am not sure who put them in) and I need to investigate the underlying logic. Ann S AnnScottGowers (talk) 03:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Plain Words
The publication of the new edition (I have had the drawbridge up and the door bolted while I devoured it) has prompted me to overhaul and expand the shockingly brief Wikipedia article on the book. If you have time and disposition I'd be most grateful if you'd look in and add, change or comment ad lib. In particular, I'd be very interested indeed in your thoughts on whether (as I have long supposed) your grandfather used "a work of supererogation" in his original opening para as a sly joke or if he and his advisers all let a very un-plain phrase slip through in absence of mind. But any comments or changes will be most gladly received. Tim riley (talk) 18:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)