... styleJargonJournalesePlain English TechnologeseSPECIAL STYLESAmerican English Australian English British English Canadian English International English New Zealand English South African English Standard English VARIETIES ... ananalog to speed reading with a musical analogue to Esperanto. With these various uses analog appearstwice as often as analogue in CCAE data, which36The CambridgeGuide to English Usage PAM ... above. The CambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gapbetween traditional and modern grammar, and uses terminology from both (e.g.mood and modality) as entry points to discussing...
... a, e.g. a historic occasion, a hotel. ° The older usage was not to pronounce h and to write an, but this is now almost obsolete. B. Before capital letter abbreviations. Be guided by the ... Compositors and Readers (edn. 39, Oxford, 1983) MEU H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern EnglishUsage (edn. 2, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, ... discoverer, photographer, executioner, organizer. Principal exceptions: counsellor, carburettor, conqueror. 3. -or follows -at- to form a suffix -ator, often but not always in words related to verbs...
... and -ible” in topic 1.3; “ae and oe” in topic 1.4; “-ce or -se” in topic 1.14; “doubling of final consonant” in topic 1.16; “dropping of silent -e” in topic 1.17; “hyphens” in topic 1.27; ... “l and ll” in topic 1.32; “-oul-” in topic 1.36; “-our or -or” in topic 1.37; “past of verbs, formation of” in topic 1.38; “-re or -er” in topic 1.41; “-xion or -ction” in topic 1.45; “-yse ... potatoes = shouts of “bravo!”) heroes salvoes (= discharges salvos buffaloes innuendoes = reservations, excuses) calicoes mangoes stuccoes cargoes mementoes tomatoes dingoes mosquitoes tornadoes...
... or disagreement. The proper aim of a usageguide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. The Oxford GuidetoEnglishUsage has this aim. Within the limits ... discoverer, photographer, executioner, organizer. Principal exceptions: counsellor, carburettor, conqueror. 3. -or follows -at- to form a suffix -ator, often but not always in words related to verbs ... -er. So supervisor, compressor, prospector, but adviser, presser, perfecter. -tor usually follows -c, unstressed i, and u, e.g. actor, compositor, executor; -ter usually follows f, gh, l, r,...
... styleJargonJournalesePlain English TechnologeseSPECIAL STYLESAmerican English Australian English British English Canadian English International English New Zealand English South African English Standard English VARIETIES ... the preparatory stages of The Cambridge GuidetoEnglish Usage, I was fortunate to be a visiting professor atthe Englisches Seminar of the University of Z ¨urich, which gave me access to theirexcellent ... information focusand sentence topic, as aids to writing and editing.viiiPrefaceApart from its large range of primary and secondary sources, The Cambridge GuidetoEnglishUsage draws on the findings...