VIBRATION (ERT 452/3): Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

This simplified dictionary for learners of English, which has sold more than 100,000 copies in its previous edition, provides easy access to a basic vocabulary of 5,500 everyday English words. Entries have clear, simple, easy-to-understand definitions and include pronunciations and parts of speech. Handy reference pages show numbers, irregular verbs, and U.S. facts.

This reference encompasses a basic core vocabulary of more than 6,800 words and phrases for beginners striving to master American English. It presents simplified definitions and example sentences for each sense in every entry. An indispensable reference tool for individual study and classroom use.

Completely revised, updated, reorganized, and enlarged with 600 new entries. Essential for writers and learners of American English, it features a unique new format, an appendix of 500 fixed-order phrases--such as "fast and furious--that cannot be reversed, and a Phrase-Finder Index for easy lookups of even partially remembered phrases.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language matters, generating further publications and broadcasting events for an avid audience. Its First Edition appeared in hardback in 1995 and a revised paperback in 1997. There have been numerous subsequent updated reprintings; but this Second Edition now presents an overhaul of the subject for a new generation of language-lovers and of teachers, students and professional English-users concerned with their own linguistic legacy. The length of the book has been extended and there are 44 new illustrations, extensive new material on world English and Internet English, and a complete updating of statistics, further reading suggestions and other references.