New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word (Revised edition)

RR 2015/176 New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word (Revised edition) Oxford University Press Oxford 2014 xiv + 434 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 957001 0 £14.99 $35 Adapted from The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors 2nd ed. edited and compiled by R.M. Ritter Available online via subscription through Oxford Dictionaries (www.oxforddictionaries.com/products)

Keywords Authorship, Guides and handbooks, Written communications

Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2015-0003

Compliment or complement? "A hotel" or "an hotel"? What does floccinaucinihilipilification mean? The Oxford University Press has a dictionary - and an online database - for that. The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, or ODWE, is the revised and updated edition of an indispensable favourite, printed in the traditional, desk-friendly handbook format. First published as the Authors' and Printers' Dictionary in 1905, and rebranded 11 editions later, this...