Dictionaries & Languages

The Oxford Guide to Plain English offers practical guidelines to help readers make their writing clearer by improving structure, word choice, grammar, punctuation, and layout. This new edition gives expert and up-to-date advice on all aspects of the writing process, from planning the material successfully to writing in the most user-friendly way.

Discover a new and effective way to learn Norwegian. With 15 units covering the four key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this bestselling course comprises a book and free online audio support.

A reference work for those looking for help in order to write a letter, prepare a speech, solve a crossword, or write any manner of prose or poem. It includes various buzzwords and phrases, information about signs of the zodiac and the origins of familiar quotations.

The main objectives of the book are to assess the position of the Irish language in Ireland today, explore why Irish attracts such passionate feelings; to explain why extensive teaching of the Irish language has had almost no effect in making Irish speakers out of the general Irish population, and to outline how the language could be revived.

Discover a new and effective way to learn Romanian. With 20 units covering the four key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this best-selling course comprises of a book and free online audio support.

Take the scenic route to knowledge.

The perfect present for word-lovers: a word for every day of the year: 'WORD PERFECT is a golden vaulted cave of fascinating and funny hidden gems' JO BRAND

A literary treasure-trove packed with amazing words, jaw-dropping stories and unforgettable etymologies from Countdown's Queen of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent

There is a word for how you feel, however you feel and Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, is going to help you find it.