Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable quick-reference work, providing clear, practical and up-to-date guidance on questions of grammar, spelling, style, and word choice. Jeremy Butterfield has judiciously revised the text to reflect the English usage practices and concerns of the 21st century.
A comprehensive guide to the English language provides detailed and expert information on grammar, style, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation with clear explanations and example sentences.
Using evidence from the world's largest language databank, the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield uncovers fascinating facts about the English language. Where does our vocabulary come from? How is our language really being used? How do word meanings change? This entertaining book has the authoritative answers to key questions about our language.
Helps visitors to England, be they English speakers or not, to understand the natives. This title covers everything from catchphrases to rhyming slang, from cultural references to truncated idioms, from Whittington to Del Boy and beyond.
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Offers the user a guide to communicating in French. This work is useful for learners of French of various ages. It gives you the phrases you need in order to communicate effectively in natural French. There are many examples to show how French is really used.
This edition has been fully revised to include thousands of the latest buzz and hi-tech words, as well as new meanings from the Bank of English. It includes a much wider and richer range of words than ever before, including regional and dialect words, and coverage of World English.
With over 80,000 references and 115,000 translations, this revised and updated dictionary covers up-to-date vocabulary, including business and computing terms. New features include treatment of frequently-used words in Spanish and English and entries explaining aspects of Spanish culture. The clear new typography makes this text easier to consult than the first edition. In addition, this dictionary retains full coverage of today's spoken and written language, thousands of constructions and idiomatic phrases, clear signposting of meanings and style level, help with pronunciation and hundreds of widely-used abbreviations and acronyms explained and translated.
