The concise Oxford companion to the English language
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The concise Oxford companion to the English language
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The work The concise Oxford companion to the English language represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The concise Oxford companion to the English language
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Tom McArthur
- Title variation
- Oxford companion to the English language
- Subject
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- Dictionnaires
- Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedias
- Encyclopédies
- English
- English Language
- English philology
- English philology -- Encyclopedias
- Langage et langues -- Encyclopédies
- Language and languages
- Language and languages -- Encyclopedias
- Languages & Literatures
- Ouvrages de référence
- Philologie anglaise -- Encyclopédies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Consists of a compact, authoritative, and up-to-date source of information about the English language. Views English from an international perspective, covering Cockney to Creole and Aboriginal English to South Asian English. Covers a large historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, and Latin to the World Wide Web. Provides substantial entries on key subjects such as American and British differences, computing, etymology, pidgin, poetry, sexism, Shakespeare's language, and slang. Includes features on place-names, borrowings from other languages, the evolution of the alphabet, and the story of the expression 'OK'
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- BUF
- Dewey number
- 420
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PE31
- LC item number
- .C66 1998b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- encyclopedias
- Series statement
- Oxford paperback reference
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