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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary
Current and topical, it includes up-to-date coverage of the latest technologies, with entries such as TAS (time addressable storage) and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) as well as all the shortcuts you need to know when sending or reading a text message, such as YKWIM (You know what I mean?), POS (parent over shoulder), and ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing).
Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions.
Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics
Definitions of terms in the field of linguistics and phonetics.
Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk
Hugh Rawson explains, in clear language, what it means when we talk of an unusual occurrence, a crew transfer container, or Montezuma's revenge. If you have ever been baffled by the expression culturally deprived, or want to know where the phrase deep-six comes from, then this book will certainly be of service.
The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
This authoritative survey of English usage, grammar, and style offers guidance on almost any writing problem imaginable. Arranged in a single, easy-to-use A-Z list, the guide's entries include examples and quotations that show not only correct and incorrect usage but also the relative effectiveness of different expressions in context.

Books

Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics
This work provides uniquely comprehensive and authoritative information on all aspects of sociolinguistics.
A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics
The first comprehensive dictionary of the field of sociolinguistics, this is a valuable reference book for students and teachers of sociolinguistics, others concerned with the socially-oriented study of language and those with a professional interest in language.
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
Offers introductory entries on ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day.
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
A unique and accessible reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language.
Word Histories and Mysteries
Provides a panoramic view of the unique richness of English, uncovering the origins of five hundred everyday words whose surprising and often amusing stories offer insights into the history of humankind.
Word Origins
The origins of thousands of words in the English language explored and explained.
Good Word Guide by Martin H. Manser
This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords, and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems.