Comprehensive and practical advice on grammar, syntax, style, and choice of words, as well as wide-ranging examples of usage from a broad selection of newspapers, journals, and books from across the globe are compiled in a new edition of this classic language reference.

Product Description: Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th century AD to the present day...read more

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Product Description: This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language encompasses three centuries of immense cultural change, from Caxton in the late Middle Ages to the American Declaration of Independence and the beginnings of Romanticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The first new edition of the classic reference, Fowler's Modern English Usage, in seventy years features thousands of entries offering clear, commonsense guidance on all aspects of English grammar, punctuation, and style, with plenty of examples. UP.

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Product Description: This is a fascinating collection of essays and reflections on language by Robert Burchfield, a leading authority on English usage and etymology, and editor of the Supplement to the First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Points of View begins with two original and entertaining reflections, the first entitled "The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks," the second "An Outline of Euphemisms in English...read more

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Product Description: This is a small pamphlet which apparently accompanied the actual dictionary. This is not the OED itself.

Contains new words that have come into use during the twentieth century, including new definitions that have been applied to older words

Product Description: Offering a wide variety of distinctively New Zealand words in current use, as well as the general vocabulary that New Zealand shares with other English-speaking countries, The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary is the most ambitious treatment of New Zealand English published thus far...read more

A definitive reference to English words and usage

A definitive reference to English words and usage

A definitive reference to English words and usage

A definitive reference to English words and usage