Reference books : a classified and annotated guide to the principal works of reference / compiled by John Minto.

  • Minto, John, 1863-1935
Date:
1929
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    — — Beiblatt. Mitteilungen iiber engl. Sprache u. Literatur, u. iiber engl. Un- terricht. Hrsg. v. Max Fr. Mann. Bd. 1-39. Halle, Niemeyer, 1890-1928. la. 8° PF4 In progress. 421.5 Orthoepy. Phyfe (W. H. P.). 18,000 words often mispronounced. New ed. N.Y., Putnam, 1926. PE1137 421.8 Abbreviations. Rogers (W. T.). Diet, of abbrevs. (of terms used in professions, sport, and trades), xi, 205 +149 p. G. Allen & Co. ; N. Y., Macm., 1913. PE1693 The second part of the work deals with legal abbrevs. in a separate alphabet, a reprint of Soule’s Legal abbrevs. 423 ENGLISH DICTIONARIES. Century Diet, and cyclop., with a new atlas of the world. Rev. and enl. ed. 12v. N. Y., Century Co. ; Standard Art Bk. Co., 1915. 4°. PE1625 First pubh, 1889-91 in 8 v. Partly rev. 1901. 2 suppl. vols. publ. 1909. V. 12 = maps. V. 11 is a diet, of proper names which is also publ. sep. No revision since 1911. New Century Diet, of the English language, based on matter sel. from the original Century Dictionary, and entirely re-written, with the addition of a great amount of new material. Ulus. Ed. by H. G. Brewster. The Century Co., 1927. la. 8°. PE 1625 Chambers’s Twentieth century diet, of the English language. Ed. Thomas Davidson. 1247 p. Chambers, 1927. One of the best single vol. diets. PE 1625 Fennell (C. A. M.). The Stanford diet, of anglicised words and phrases, xvi, 826 p. Camb., U.P., 1892. 4°. PE1582.A3 Fowler (H. W.). Diet, of modern English usage. 752 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1926. PE1628 Fowler (H. W. and F. G.). Concise Oxford diet, of current English adapted by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler from the Oxford diet. New ed., rev. by H. W. Fowler, xvi, 1444 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1929. PE1628 Contains material from other standard diets. —The pocket Oxford diet, of current English, comp, by F. G. F. and H. W. F. xvi, 1000 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1924. 16mo. PE1628 An American ed., rev. by G. van Santvoord, was publ. by the American branch of the O.U.P. in 1927. Great Britain. Ministry of Labour. Diet, of occupational terms, based on the classification used in 1921 census, v, 564 p. H.M.S.O., 1927. fol. HD4826 Contains many terms not found in other diets. Jones (D.). English pronouncing diet., on strictly phonetic principles. 437 p. Dent, 1917. PE1628 Murray (Sir J. A. H.) others, Edd. New English diet, on historical principles. 10 v. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1888-1928. fol. PE1625 Founded mainly on the materials coll, by the Pliilolog. Soc. Ed. by Sir J. A. H. Murray, H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions. The standard authority, often quoted as the Oxford Diet. The New Standard Diet, of the English language . . . prep, by more than 380 specialists under the supervision of Isaac K. Funk, Calvin Thomas, and Frank H. Vizetelly. Also a standard hist, of the world. 2 v. Illus. Waverley Book Co. ; N. Y., Funk Wagnalls, 1913. fol. * PE 1625 Reprinted in one vol. 1925. Skeat (W. W.). Etymolog. diet, of the English language. New [4th] ed., rev. and enl. xliv, 780 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1910. la. 8°. PE 1580 —Concise etymolog. diet. 663 p. Oxf., Clar. Pr., 1911. PE1580 Webster (Noah). Webster’s New inter¬ national diet, of the English language. Ed. by W. T. Harris and F. S. Allen, cxi, 2620 p. Illus. Bond., and Springfield, Mass., Merriam, 1926. la. 8°. PE1625 First publ. 1828. Rev. and reset, 1909. Var. reprints, with prefatory addenda. Weekley (E.). Etymolog. diet, of modern English. xx p., 1660 cols. Murray, 1921. la. 8°. PE 1580 Contains bibliog., pp. xvii-xx.