ABSTRACT

First published in 1986. This comprehensive guide to written and spoken English offers details of usage in all countries where English used. The writer's, speaker's and reader's handy companion; the student's source. A book for browsing, for rules and for reference.

chapter |6 pages

a- words

chapter |1 pages

abstract

chapter |1 pages

accent

chapter |12 pages

accent marks

chapter |10 pages

adjunct

chapter |1 pages

ain’t

chapter |3 pages

alienable, inalienable

chapter |3 pages

alliteration

chapter |9 pages

alphabet

chapter |2 pages

anaphora

chapter |4 pages

Anglicism

chapter |3 pages

antithesis

chapter |1 pages

any way, anyway

chapter |1 pages

aphesis

chapter |3 pages

apocope

chapter |11 pages

Arabic influences

chapter |6 pages

Australian English

chapter |5 pages

Bahamian English

chapter |1 pages

better

chapter |5 pages

Bible

chapter |2 pages

Black English

chapter |1 pages

blend

chapter |2 pages

bombast

chapter |5 pages

bowdlerise/ize

chapter |7 pages

Cameroon English

chapter |8 pages

cant

chapter |3 pages

catholic, Catholic

chapter |1 pages

Central African English

chapter |4 pages

‘chestnuts’

chapter |1 pages

class

chapter |5 pages

clause

chapter |2 pages

clipping

chapter |3 pages

clothes

chapter |2 pages

coinage

chapter |9 pages

collocation

chapter |4 pages

conditional

chapter |2 pages

contemporary, contemporaneous

chapter |1 pages

contraction

chapter |11 pages

co-ordination

chapter |3 pages

deep structure

chapter |2 pages

degree

chapter |4 pages

deletion

chapter |1 pages

deviation

chapter |3 pages

dialect

chapter |5 pages

dictionary

chapter |1 pages

discourse analysis

chapter |6 pages

disinterested, uninterested

chapter |4 pages

dummy subject

chapter |11 pages

East African English

chapter |3 pages

elision

chapter |3 pages

emphasis

chapter |7 pages

English in the Indian Sub-Continent

chapter |1 pages

ersatz

chapter |4 pages

ethnolect

chapter |3 pages

everyone, every one

chapter |3 pages

fact

chapter |5 pages

female, male; feminine, masculine

chapter |2 pages

finite

chapter |1 pages

folk etymology

chapter |2 pages

food and drink

chapter |6 pages

foregrounding

chapter |6 pages

Gambian English

chapter |1 pages

gofer

chapter |1 pages

gradable

chapter |3 pages

graduate

chapter |4 pages

Gypsy/gypsy

chapter |4 pages

head

chapter |3 pages

hiatus

chapter |5 pages

homonym, homograph, homophone

chapter |1 pages

hypallage

chapter |1 pages

hypercorrection

chapter |2 pages

hypothetical

chapter |12 pages

idiom

chapter |2 pages

ing forms

chapter |2 pages

intensifier

chapter |1 pages

intransitive

chapter |1 pages

inversion

chapter |1 pages

irony

chapter |1 pages

irregular verb

chapter |2 pages

ise, -ize

chapter |13 pages

Jamaican English

chapter |2 pages

like, as

chapter |3 pages

lingo

chapter |1 pages

literature

chapter |2 pages

little

chapter |3 pages

location

chapter |1 pages

malapropism

chapter |2 pages

Malawian English

chapter |2 pages

meals

chapter |6 pages

Mentalism

chapter |4 pages

mixed language

chapter |2 pages

modifier

chapter |1 pages

monologue

chapter |5 pages

morpheme

chapter |5 pages

narration, narrative

chapter |10 pages

news

chapter |3 pages

North African English

chapter |10 pages

noun

chapter |4 pages

of, off

chapter |3 pages

only

chapter |5 pages

orthography

chapter |2 pages

parallelism

chapter |7 pages

paraphrase

chapter |1 pages

period

chapter |1 pages

periodic sentence

chapter |6 pages

periphrasis

chapter |7 pages

philology

chapter |4 pages

plagiarism

chapter |1 pages

poetic diction

chapter |9 pages

polysemy

chapter |14 pages

problem pairs

chapter |12 pages

problem words

chapter |1 pages

psychologese

chapter |9 pages

punctuation

chapter |7 pages

purist

chapter |3 pages

racist language

chapter |4 pages

real, really

chapter |1 pages

reported speech

chapter |8 pages

rhotic

chapter |5 pages

see, look, watch

chapter |2 pages

sexist language

chapter |10 pages

shibboleth

chapter |4 pages

sound symbolism

chapter |10 pages

speaker orientation

chapter |5 pages

stream of consciousness

chapter |1 pages

style

chapter |7 pages

subject

chapter |3 pages

suprasegmental

chapter |2 pages

synecdoche

chapter |5 pages

syntax

chapter |4 pages

telegraphese

chapter |4 pages

till, to, until

chapter |1 pages

tone languages

chapter |4 pages

transformational grammar

chapter |7 pages

travel

chapter |6 pages

UK and US words

chapter |8 pages

Vanuatuan English

chapter |5 pages

wake

chapter |12 pages

West African English

chapter |2 pages

Yiddish influences

chapter |2 pages

Zambian English