The Oxford companion to the English language
Tom McArthur (Editor), Feri McArthur (Editor), Madeline Kripke (Former owner), Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography (Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky
Print Book, English, 1992
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992