Oxford English Reference
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Overview: 7 Oxford reference books for anyone who uses English language: The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations,The Oxford Dictionary of New Words, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Oxford English Reference, The Oxford Guide to English Usage,The Oxford Thesaurus. Txt files are a bit bulky, but you can search through them any way you want.
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Oxford_Dictionary_for_Writers_and_Editors.TXT, 1516 kB
This book provides a one-stop reference with comprehensive and helpful advice on a very broad range of issues encountered when writing or editing, either professionally or whilst studying. A completely expanded, revised, and updated version of the first edition, it presents the house style of Oxford University Press, drawing on the experience of the Dictionary Department and the Presss in-house academic desk editors. It gives clear advice on common spelling difficulties, names of people and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, and broad aspects of usage, including capitalization and punctuation.
Oxford_English_Reference.TXT, 12 239 kB
The Oxford English Reference Dictionary extendes the aims of conventional dictionaries to be more useful, more practical, and more informative. It combines the coverage of an authoritative Oxford dictionary containing spellings, grammar information, pronunciations, and word origins, with in-depth encyclopedic entries.
Oxford_Guide_to_English_Usage.TXT, 496 kB
"It is one thing to use language; it is quite another to understand how it works."
Oxford_Modern_Quotations.TXT, 1 318 kB
This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations. The dictionary includes the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than 200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers.
Oxford_New_Words.TXT, 1564 kB
This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language, but, unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words, phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as an independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford_Quotations.TXT, 3 685 kB
What is a "quotation"? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with a phrase like "As ---- says" but equally often they will assume that the reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply allude to it without mentioning its source.
Oxford_Thesaurus.TXT, 5 294 kB
Based on the ongoing research of Oxford Dictionaries and the authority of the Oxford English Corpus, this revised edition of the Oxford Thesaurus of English has been updated to include new and up-to-date synonyms and senses, and offers coverage of more alternative words than any other A-Z thesaurus. It is accessible and easy to use, listing alternative words in order of usefulness, and giving thousands of examples of words in use to help you choose the right synonym.
Download Instructions: http://rapidshare.com/files/9849545/Dict.rar.html
Requirements: plain text, zipped
Overview: 7 Oxford reference books for anyone who uses English language: The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations,The Oxford Dictionary of New Words, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Oxford English Reference, The Oxford Guide to English Usage,The Oxford Thesaurus. Txt files are a bit bulky, but you can search through them any way you want.
Features:
Archive contains the following files:
Oxford_Dictionary_for_Writers_and_Editors.TXT, 1516 kB
This book provides a one-stop reference with comprehensive and helpful advice on a very broad range of issues encountered when writing or editing, either professionally or whilst studying. A completely expanded, revised, and updated version of the first edition, it presents the house style of Oxford University Press, drawing on the experience of the Dictionary Department and the Presss in-house academic desk editors. It gives clear advice on common spelling difficulties, names of people and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, and broad aspects of usage, including capitalization and punctuation.
Oxford_English_Reference.TXT, 12 239 kB
The Oxford English Reference Dictionary extendes the aims of conventional dictionaries to be more useful, more practical, and more informative. It combines the coverage of an authoritative Oxford dictionary containing spellings, grammar information, pronunciations, and word origins, with in-depth encyclopedic entries.
Oxford_Guide_to_English_Usage.TXT, 496 kB
"It is one thing to use language; it is quite another to understand how it works."
Oxford_Modern_Quotations.TXT, 1 318 kB
This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations. The dictionary includes the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than 200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers.
Oxford_New_Words.TXT, 1564 kB
This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language, but, unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words, phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as an independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford_Quotations.TXT, 3 685 kB
What is a "quotation"? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with a phrase like "As ---- says" but equally often they will assume that the reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply allude to it without mentioning its source.
Oxford_Thesaurus.TXT, 5 294 kB
Based on the ongoing research of Oxford Dictionaries and the authority of the Oxford English Corpus, this revised edition of the Oxford Thesaurus of English has been updated to include new and up-to-date synonyms and senses, and offers coverage of more alternative words than any other A-Z thesaurus. It is accessible and easy to use, listing alternative words in order of usefulness, and giving thousands of examples of words in use to help you choose the right synonym.
Download Instructions: http://rapidshare.com/files/9849545/Dict.rar.html
