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It is proposed that etymological information, usually provided in native speaker's dictionaries but eliminated from learners' references, can serve several important functions such as disambiguate, relate words that are alphabetically far apart, illuminate by providing an image or reference, and motivate with interesting information. (Author/MSE)

The 1959 Survey of English Usage has provided researchers and teachers with a corpus of spoken, manuscript, and printed Standard British English. New uses have been found for the survey's resources in recent years, and the spoken part is more widely available in book and computer tape form. (MSE)

D Chris Cook, editor PEARS' CYCLOPAEDIA 2012-2013 Everything you need to know 832pp. Allen Lane. 25[pounds sterling]. 978 1 846 1 4376 2 D Pears was first published in 1897: [...]

Susie Dent, editor BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE Nineteenth edition 1,536pp. Chambers Harrap. 35 [pounds sterling] (US $50). 978 0 550 102 454 I'm not sure even now if [...]

THE CHAMBERS DICTIONARY Twelfth edition 1,920pp. Chambers. 40 [pounds sterling] (US $50). 978 0 550 10237 9 In compiling dictionaries, lexicographers are torn between two objectives: helping people to understand [...]

Gene Sharp SHARP'S DICTIONARY OF POWER AND STRUGGLE Language of civil resistance in conflicts 320pp. Oxford University Press. 64.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback, 12.99 [pounds sterling]); US $99 (paperback, $19.95). 978 [...]

The source-language entries in bilingual dictionaries are explained typically by target-language definitions which may also serve as target-language translational equivalents if they are lexical units or lexically relevant units of the target language. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]