TY - BOOK AU - McArthur,Tom TI - The Oxford companion to the English language SN - 019214183X AV - PE31 .O84 1992 U1 - 420 PY - 1992///] CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English philology KW - Encyclopedias KW - Language and languages N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/92224249-b.html ER -