Product Description: This easy-to-use guide helps readers improve their wordpower and is full of practical advice on how to effectively manage dictionaries, thesauri, and other language reference books. Useful tips for tackling spelling and the meaning of difficult words are included, along with a comprehensive reference section that highlights easily confused words, foreign terms, and word formation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide to modern English containing 5000 entries which clarify every kind of usage problems, presented in alphabetical order. Guidance on points of grammar, meaning, style, spelling, pronunciation and punctuation is provided. Special attention is paid to the differences between American and British English...read more

Product Description: The unusually rich vocabulary of the English language is the result of new words from all over the world being freely assimilated. House, man, bread, and speak, among our most basic words, arrived with the Saxons, while the Vikings added law, egg, sister, and sky...read more