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1,000 entries English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties wi... more »

This Pocket edition is based primarily on Robert W. Burchfield's renowned The New Fowler's Modern English Usage . Robert Allen has taken all the key elements from the best-selling parent w... more »

Includes over 1,500 entries This dictionary provides both amateur and professional historians with quick answers to questions of terminology that may arise in the course of rese... more »

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