 Perhaps the best-known and most historically important text of this sort was Henry Watson Fowler's idiosyncratic and much praised "Dictionary of Modern English Usage".Originally published in 1926, it was extensively revised for the 1996 third edition, and remains a primary reference for many educated speakers and editors.Besides Fowler, other writers in this tradition include the 19th-century poet and editor William Cullen Bryant, and, in the 20th-century, Theodore Bernstein and William Safire.