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The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international... Read Full Overview

Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity... Read Full Overview

First published in 1992, The Oxford Companion to the English Language was described by The Times as an excellent guide to the history, geography and contours of English', one that immediately establishes itself as a necessary book'. A carefully-planned shorter version of the... Read Full Overview

The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover's dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from Abbreviations to split infinitives,... Read Full Overview