according to Fowler

Definition 
Many disputes about proper English usage are settled with the words, "according to Fowler…." The authority cited is Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926). Fowler, a noted classicist and lexicographer, and his brother, F. G. Fowler, collaborated on a number of important books, including a one-volume abridgement of the Oxford English Dictionary (1911). But Modern English Usage is his alone. The book remains a standard reference work, though some of the old schoolmaster's opinions are debatable. Margaret Nicholson's A Dictionary of American English Usage, Based on Fowler, is its American counterpart. The Fowlers' trenchant and witty book on modern English usage (1906) was entitled The King's English, but it is often called simply Fowler's today. Death ended the grand grammarians' collaborations in 1918 when Francis Fowler, the older brother, was killed in World War I.