The Oxford Guide to The English Language

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This is the ideál concise handbook for everyone who cares about using the English language properly. Combining between one set of covers Edmund Weiner's Oxford Guide to English Usage and a compact Oxford dictionary compiled by Joyce Hawkins, it is comprehensive and exceptionally convenient for regular quick consultation. Here are just a few examples of what the usage section offers: • clearly set out guidance on word formation: words ending with -ize and ~ise, -able and -ible, irregular plurals, doubling (or not) of consonants in words like occurred and budgeted • advice on the pronunciation of words that often cause difficulty {controversy, restaurateur, apartheid, spontaneity ...) • a list of about 600 words that tend to be misused or confused with other like-sounding words (such as mitigate and militate, imply and infer) • an easily understood guide to specific points of English grammar that can cause difficulty • English usage illustrated by quotations drawn from the best modern writers The dictionary contains nearly 30,000 words and phrases, and provides a compact and up-to-date guide to contemporary English-spelling, pronunciation, and meaning. Edmund Weiner is editor of The New Oxford English Dictionary. Joyce Hawkins is a Senior Editor in OUP's English Dictionary Department, and compiler of The Oxford Paperback Dictionary. Róbert Burchfield, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The English Language (OUP 1985), has contributed a foreword to the book as a whole. Alsó in Oxford Paperback Reference Fowler's Modern English Usage The King's English The Oxford Paperback Dictionary isbn o-n-samnllllllllllllllllll lllllllll Vissza