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Resumen: Over 600 concise, authoritative entries; examples of natural spoken and written british english; examples of common mistakes; illustrations of stylistic differences; illustrations of differences between british and american usage; cross-references between related entries; a glossary of language terminology; a very full index.

Resumen: First published in 1926, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is one of the most celebrated reference books of the twentieth century. Commonly known as "Fowler," after its inimitable author, H.W. Fowler, it has sold more than a million copies and maintained a devoted following over seven decades, in large part because of its charming blend of information and good humor, delivered in the voice of a genial if somewhat idiosyncratic schoolmaster. Now this classic is available in a new edition--the first major revision since Fowler's original. Rewritten, updated, and expanded to take into account the vast linguistic changes of the past three-quarters of a century, here are thousands of alphabetically arranged entries, offering advice and background information on all aspects of the English language, from grammar to spelling to literary style. This masterful revision has been carried out by Robert Burchfield, hailed by The Chicago Tribune as "the greatest living lexicographer." In his hands, the MEU has retained its beloved traits--accessibility, authority, and (not least) personality--while acquiring new ones, most notably, up-to-the-minute currency. As in "Fowler," the new edition is a cornucopia of information on such troublesome areas as the plural form of foreign words (adagio, curriculum, memorandum, virus); related or like-sounding words (affect/effect, continual/continuous); rarely encountered literary terms (alcaics, alexandrine, arsis); and unusual inflected forms (for instance, taxi, taxis, taxiing). But there are also many innovations. Burchfield, who spent decades working on the Oxford English Dictionary, has introduced the OED's historical approach to the MEU, providing fascinating details on how and when new usages entered the language.

Resumen: In questo Dizionario il lettore troverà tre tipi di voci: a) voci riguardanti concetti e regole generali di fonetica, morfologia, sintassi e stilistica, ampie quanto i capitoli d'una comune grammatica; b) voci riguardanti aspetti particolari di taluni argomenti; c) voci grammaticali e sintattiche riguardanti l'uso o la flessione di nomi, aggettivi, verbi, pronomi, ecc., nonchè il significato e l'uso di locuzioni e parole latine e straniere.

Resumen: El British Council ha recopilado las dudas más frecuentes, con ejemplos que ilustran los usos correctos e incorrectos. Además incluye las formas de expresión más actuales, indicando cuáles están ya aceptadas y cuáles debemos evitar. Estructurados en forma de pregunta y respuesta, se tratan varios temas: escritura, puntuación, verbos, preposiciones y partículas, expresiones, construcción de frases, corrección y estilo, entre otros.