Hutchinson Dictionary Of Difficult Words

Most dictionaries are full of words that nobody looks up. The entries in this dictionary cover only the words that are frequently misspelt, misused, misunderstood, mispronounced or that are genuinely obscure.

Contains entymologies of thousands of English words, with information on language of origin, and including recently coined words such as disco and slang such as yob. It should be of use to anyone interested in the history of words and how language is used.

Dendral? Lampadedromy? Here are more than 15,000 definitions of all the difficult and unusual words the reader is likely to encounter. Including foreign words and terms from the sciences and technology, this reference is invaluable to students, writers, puzzle solvers, and the general reader.

When one looks at the history of English Studies there has been a noticeable proliferation of research interests since the 1970s. As a result of such development, attempts have been made to create a new basis for communication and cooperation inside Anglistics and across disciplines. Making a case for a Dialogic Anglistics is such an attempt. A Dialogic Anglistics is based on a normative concept of dialogue aiming for egalitarian forms of cooperation both inside, between and across disciplines leading to the redefinition of old and creation of manifold new directions for English Studies. In the nineteen articles presented in this volume dialogic encounters are encouraged both within and between different fields within Anglistics. Furthermore, dialogic links are created with colleagues from other academic disciplines.