A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage

A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage
Author: Bergen Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1957
Genre: Americanisms
ISBN:

Lively and readable, this book provides clear answers to questions of grammar, word preferences, effective style, punctuation, idiomatic phrases, spelling and literally thousands of similar problems that arise frequently in the use of the English language.

Garner's Modern American Usage

Garner's Modern American Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195161912

Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.

Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage

Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage
Author: William Morris
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1985
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Includes commentaries on the use and misuse of contemporary words and phrases.

The American Heritage Book Of English Usage

The American Heritage Book Of English Usage
Author: Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1996-09-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780547563213

For the first time, the editors of the acclaimed American Heritage(R) Dictionary have applied their efforts to word usage as its own subject. The result is this practical guide that includes chapters on grammar, style, diction, gender, social groups, pronunciation, word formation, science terms, and a subject and a word index.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Author: Ann Lee Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2007
Genre: Art, American
ISBN: 0195373219

In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
Author: John A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-04-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780195218893

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Beginner's Dictionary of American English Usage, Second Edition

Beginner's Dictionary of American English Usage, Second Edition
Author: Peter Collin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-07-10
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780071396554

Selling more than 58,000 in its first edition, Beginner's Dictionary of American English Usage has been revised and brought right up-to-date to contain today's 4,000 most commonly used words. Definitions are simple and brief, utilizing only words contained within the dictionary's pages. If you want to learn English as spoken by Americans, this dictionary is for you. It's easy to follow and absolutely indispensable. Each entry offers at least one example sentence, identifies parts of speech, and lists multiple meanings.