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Reference
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A
range of dictionaries old and new, etymological dictionaries
and thesauruses.
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Twentieth
Century Words by John Ayto, 1999, OUP or |
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The
Oxford Book of New Words, Ed. Elizabeth Knowles, OUP. |
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The
Wordsworth Dictionary of Foreign Words in English,
by John Ayto, (Wordsworth Reference series) is useful
for those students also studying French or Latin to appreciate
the current linguistic borrowings, and includes words
from many other languages too. |
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Booklets
of dialect words are inexpensive: Abson Books, London,
produce several. |
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David
Crystal's book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English
Language (Cambridge University Press) is a highly
recommended resource book covering all aspects of the
development of English in a lively way; lavishly illustrated. |
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A
selection of fiction in which the author uses invented
words (eg Richard Adams, Tolkein, George Orwell, James
Joyce). |
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