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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: The steady advance towards completion of the great Oxford English Dictionary has made it possible for the Delegates Of the Clarendon Press to authorize the preparation and issue of this book, whichin itsown province and on its own scale uses the materials and follows the methods by which the Oxford editors have revolutionized lexicography. The book is designed as a dictionary, and not as an encyclopaedia; thatis, the uses of words and phrases as such are its subject matter, and it is concerned with giving information about the things for which those words and phrases stand only so far as correct use of the words depends upon knowledge of the things.

Resumen: This is a completely revised and reset edition of the Dictionary that was first published in Tokyo, under the title Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary, for the Institute for Research in English Teaching in 1942 onwards for publication out-side Japan. The new edition has made it posible to bring the Dictionary up to date and to increase considerably the number of entries. A large number of new words has entered the language since 1940. Many words that occur in the first edition are now used in new senses and enter into new compounds. The compilers, aware of the wide range of books, from publishing houses in the USA besides those in Great Britain, that are likely to be read by advanced students of English, have readily admitted new words and phrases.