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EDITED BY
TDM McARTHUR
This thousand-page cornucopia brings readers information on virtually every
aspect of the English language:
•
Comprehensive
—Over 3,500 entries covering writing and speech, linguis-
tics, rhetoric, literary terms, and a thousand related topics such as bilingual
education, child language acquisition, sign language, and psycholinguistics
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Informative
—Provides bibliographies for the larger entries, generous cross-
referencing, etymologies for headwords, a chronology of English from Roman
times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries or bibliographies
•
Colorful
—Includes vivid biographies of figures who have influenced the
shape or study of English, from Shakespeare and Joyce, to Noam Chomsky and
Noah Webster, as well as many delightful asides that make browsing a joy
Printed in the U.S.A.
The
Oxford Companion
to the
English Language
The
Oxford Companion
to the
English Language
Editor
TOM McARTHUR
Managing Editor
FERI McARTHUR
Oxford New York
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1992
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