''The Cambridge Guide to English Usage'' by
Pam Peters
Pamela Hardy Peters (born 28 March 1942) is an Australian linguist. She is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Standing Committee on Spoken English. Sh ...
is a
usage dictionary
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, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. It is based on extensive, up-to-date
corpus data rather than on the author's personal intuition or prejudice, and differentiates among US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages. British
lexicographer
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Sidney Landau
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People
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* Sidney (given name), including a list of people with the given name
* Sidney (footballer, born 1972), full name Sidney da Silva Souza, Brazilian football defensive midfielder
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remarked:
See also
* ''
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Covering topics such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like word ...
'' by Fowler
*
List of English words with disputed usage
Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English, and academic linguists point out that they are accepted by many l ...
References
CUP catalogue entry(contains reviews as well)
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English dictionaries
Style guides
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