Offering students a head start at school and at home, this book serves as a reference tool for students with dictionary skills who are not yet ready to use an adult dictionary. It contains definitions, phrases, and sample sentences.
Including word origins to develop knowledge about language; and information panels giving guidance on usage, spelling and grammar, this book serves as a useful portable dictionary for school use. It includes introduction to show how to use the dictionary; and appendices include weights and measures and countries and peoples list.
Drama starring Lynda Carter ('Wonder Woman'). Kate Carlin (Carter) is a social worker who suspects that Robert Westfield's (Harold Gould) adoption agency isn't as above-board is it seems.
This volume contains the complete text of "The Oxford School Dictionary" (new edition) in a pocket format. The book is intended for readers aged 11 years and above.
The Oxford Word and Language Service (OWLS for short) was launched by the Oxford University Press on the Ides of March, 1983. The first enquiries began to arrive almost before the ink was dry on the press release, and since then the lexicographers have answered a truly enormous number of queries about the origin, meaning, and use of English words. The questions come from university lecturers, school-children, word-game enthusiasts, foreign students, secretaries, translators, monks, historians, pensioners, lawyers, and many others of extraordinary variety. Queries arrive on anything from picture postcards to impressively crested notepaper, and from backs of envelopes to faxes. Based on real letters to the Oxford Word and Language Service, Questions of EngIish answers hundreds of queries, from the practical ('When is it correct to use a hyphen in a word?') to the idly curious ('Is French leave really French?'), and from the general ('What is the difference between British and American English?') to the specific ('Is there a word for someone who collects beermats?').