The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

"This authoritative and highly readable guide to British, American and international English is based on current corpus evidence and solid language research. Now in its second edition, its contents have been fully updated and expanded to address countless usage issues, which are explained and illustrated throughout with lively contemporary examples"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Overview of contents and how to access them; A to Z entries; Appendix I. International Phonetic Alphabet symbols for English sounds; Appendix II. Geological eras; Appendix III. Perpetual calendar 1901-2099; Appendix IV. International System of Units (SI Units); Appendix V. Interconversion tables for metric and imperial measures; Appendix VI. Proofreading marks: British and American; Appendix VII. Formats and styles for letters, memos and e-mail; Appendix VIII. Components of personal names in different countries; Appendix IX. Currencies of the world; Appendix X. Member states of the United Nations; Bibliography.

About the author

Pam Peters is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is her best-selling book within the anglophone world and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Peters Pam
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2026
• EAN: 9781107165670
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16567-0
• Weight: 500 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Communication Studies, Historical & comparative linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Research methods: general, Historical and comparative linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics, Research methods / methodology