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If you don't know the en or em rules or how to use your solidus or vertical (aka--a standard abbreviation which needs no punctuation--as a forward slash) then this is your chance to find out. And what happens when you need to write a foreign word--perhaps Polish, Urdu or Icelandic--but you don't know what the accents are called, let alone where to find them on your computer? Oxford Style Manual is strong on diacritics-- signs and symbols on, or near, letters. There's helpful advice about foreign names too: "To call Calais callis would be obscurantist, to call Munich Munchen exhibitionist".
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Although, as an American, I will continue to use the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE as my arbiter for editorial decisions, I find Oxford's manual an excellent way of distinguishing between British and American styles of English; Part II (the dictionary) is especially thorough in pointing out key differences. Also, beginning on page 244 in Part I is a list of about 500 everyday American words with their British equivalents (tick-tack-toe = noughts and crosses). Although it would be nice to have the same list in reverse (an American's undershirt is a "vest" in UK, and his vest is a "waistcoat", something that is not immediately clear from the way the list is put together), the list is short enough for anyone to read through and become familiar with. (The CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE has no equivalent list.)
In short, a good and thorough resource.
Even if you are not an aspiring author but just a lover of books, this book is recommendable. It gives you the ability of assessing the quality of a book.
Highly recommended.
As a word hound, I also like the several center pages: "English Uncovered" answers various questions about the English language, such as, "How many words are there in English?" and "What is the commonest word?" (there are 100), and "How is English spelling changed?" The next section, "Fascinating Words," lists and defines a variety of words, from absquatulate to zopissa. "Collective Nouns" lists, of course, collective nouns along with their meanings--from a shrewdness of apes to a herd of wrens. The section, "Imitative Words," gives those words that, well, imitate sound: bang, clip-clop, pop, and zip, for example. In "Foreign Words and Phrases" one finds, as the header says, various foreign words and phrases that "the English language has assimilated." The "Guide to Good English" covers basic rules of British English grammar and punctuation, a useful tool for discovering the differences between American rules of punctuation and British.
Along with giving the origins of the words defined, the COED puts into grey boxes how various words have changed in usage. For example, the history of the modern word "trivial" is given in the grey box following its definition: "Trivial entered Middle English from Latin trivium 'a place where three roads meet,' from tri--three and via 'road, way.' A medieval trivium was an introductory course at a university involving the study of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. In the Middle Ages seven 'liberal arts' were recognized, of which the trivium contained the lower three and the quadrivium the upper four (the 'mathematical arts' of arthrimatic, geometry, astronomy, and music). This association with elementary subjects led trivial being used to mean 'of little value or importance' from the 16th century." Others may not find this sort of thing of interest, but I find little tidbits like this fascinating, as would others interested in brief discussions of how usage changes over time.
For anyone needing a reputable, reliable, solid British English dictionary, I highly recommend the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
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