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Style Manuals
General
Scientific
Dictionaries
General
Scientific and Specialised
Other Resources
Guides to Usage
and Prose Style
Handbooks,
Encyclopaedias and other reference works
Measurement,
Nomenclature and Taxonomy
Graphics
and Design
Standards
for Editing and Publication
Guides
to Information Sources
| General Dictionaries |
| The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin; 1992.
Notable for its helpful usage notes, notes
on synonyms, and biographic and geographic entries. |
| Chambers
Concise English Dictionary. Edinburgh: W&R
Chambers;1992 |
| Longman
Dictionary of American English. 2nd
ed. Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, United Kingdom:
Longman; 1997. |
| Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed.
Springfield (MA): Merriam-Webster; 1998.
Perhaps the best compact desk dictionary for
US usage. The appendices include abbreviations
and symbols for the chemical elements; compilations
of foreign words and phrases, biographic and
geographic names, signs and symbols, and a short
guide to punctuation, capitalisation, and forms
of address. |
| The
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on HIstorical
Principles. Oxford (UK): Oxford University
Press, Clarendon Press; 1993.
Has some of the characteristics of its 20 volume
father, The Oxford English Dictionary on
Historical Principles, for example, a generous
use of quotations illustrating meaning and usage,
but it is up to date in its representation of
scientific vocabulary. This would be the best
choice for an editorial office wishing to have
at least one unabridged dictionary. |
| Oxford Dictionary of Current
Idiomatic English. Volume 1: Verbs with prepositions
and particles. AP Cowie and R Mackin. Oxford
(UK): Oxford University Press; 1975.
Detailed presentation of phrasal verb forms,
some of which might not be represented in standard
English dictionaries. Out of print, limited
availability. |
| Oxford Dictionary of Current
Idiomatic English. Volume 2: Phrase, clause
and sentence idioms. AP Cowie, R Mackin, IR
McCaig. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press;
1983.
Idioms that are not standard but nevertheless
may be used on formal writing for their figurative
value. Out of print, limited availability. |
| The Oxford Encyclopaedic
English Dictionary. Oxford (UK): Oxford University
Press, Clarendon Press; 1991
In addition to the expected coverage of English-language
vocabulary, this dictionary is notable for the
geographic and biographic entries, and for the
extensive treatment of compound terms and phrasal
verbs. Many of the appendices present fundamentals
of scientific nomenclature and symbolisation.
Out of print, limited availability. |
| The
Random House Webster's Dictionary of the English
Language. unabridged. SB Flexner, editor
in chief; IC Hauck, managing editor. New York
(NY): Random House; 2003 |
| The Random House Abridged
Dictionary. 2nd ed. New York: Random
House; 1993
A major US dictionary, notably useful for its
illustrative examples of usage, definitions
of phrasal verbs, and suggestions of synonyms. |
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