Includes the history and etymology of thousands of words, 500,000 definitions, 25,250 variant spellings, and 83,000 illustrative quotations.
Lesley Brown Books
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors is an essential A-Z guide for everyone who works with words. Drawing on the expertise and authority of Oxford dictionaries, it provides valuable advice on those words and names which raise questions time after time whether because of spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, cultural or historical context. In addition to lexical terms, there are many place names, personal names, institutional names, literary references, and books of the Bible included. Each entry gives full coverage of recommended spellings, variant forms, easily confused words, hyphenation, capitalization, foreign and specialist terms, proper names, and abbreviations. The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors has long been an indispensable part of any editor's reference shelf, now the text is even more useful than before. It is an essential tool for writers, editors, publishers, journalists, and web editors.
The Cassell Compact Dictionary
- 1296 pages
- 46 hours of reading
It's small and practical, easy to work with, yet packed with what you want to know! This compact dictionary contains over 200,000 entries, with up-to-the-minute usage on all aspects of English -- including the very latest expressions. With its comprehensive labeling of specialist terms and colloquialisms, plus a guide to common misspellings, it's the best for handling your everyday language needs!
Cassell Concise Dictionary
More words and phrases than any other Concise Dictionary; Includes usage notes and spelling guide; 'Such comprehensiveness... must be considered impressive' (Times Literary Supplement) - Revised Edition
- 1711 pages
- 60 hours of reading
This updated edition of a standard reference work offers an expanded text, with a range of new slang and technical terms, notes on grammar, and help with common mistakes and mispronunciations. The dictionary also has a misspelling guide to help locate tricky spellings.
Diese gekürzte Ausgabe des Oxford English Dictionary enthält 220.000 Einträge und veranschaulicht die Definitionen mit Zitaten, die genau zeigen, wie sich die Bedeutungen von Wörtern im Laufe der Jahrhunderte verändert haben. Jeder Eintrag bietet eine Fülle von Informationen, einschließlich Geschichte und Bedeutung, Aussprache, Etymologie, Definitionen, Varianten Schreibweisen, unregelmäßigen Beugungen, Zitaten, idiomatischen Ausdrücken und einem Nachweis über die Verwendung des Wortes.