The Oxford Guide to the English Language

Oxford University Press, 1984. — 577 p. — ISBN: 0-19-869131-9This comprehensive reference book combines Dr E. S. C. Weiner's Oxford Guide to English Usage with a dictionary, giving between one pair of covers:
- clearly set out guidance on word formation: words ending with -ize and -ise, -able and -ible, irregular plurals, doubling (or not) of consonants in words like occurred and budgeted, and other such problems;
- advice on the pronunciation of words that often cause difficulty (controversy, restaurateur, apartheid, spontaneity, and so on);
- a list of about 600 words that are specially likely to be misused or confused with other like-sounding words (mitigate and militate, imply and infer);
- an easily understood guide to specific points of English grammar that can cause difficulty;
- English usage illustrated by quotations drawn from the best modern writers;
- a dictionary of contemporary English containing nearly 30,000 words and phrases.The English Language (by Robert Burchfield).
The Oxford Guide to English Usage (compiled by E. S. C. Weiner).
Dictionary (compiled by Joyce M. Hawkins).