'Be short, be simple, be human.' When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Se

Russian in Plain English enables complete beginners to acquire the skill of reading words written in Cyrillic independently, with no English transcription or im

During his long career as a British civil servant Ernest Gowers was close to the centre of many of the momentous events of the first half of the twentieth centu