... keywords. Each reference includes not only the page and the
number of the quotation on the page but also the first few letters of the
author's name. The index includes references to book-titles ... covered adequately in theOxford English
Dictionary. Catch-phrases are included if there is evidence that they are
widely remembered or used.
We have taken care to verify all the quotations in ... other dictionary of modern quotations.
TONY AUGARDE
(1) Discussions of the index features in this preface and in the
"How to Use this Dictionary& quot; section of this book refer to
the...
... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)
ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED TheOxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... Tess's
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the
plural in the normal way, e.g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no
censure of the style of the author is implied. The aim is to
illustrate the varieties of usage and to display the best, thereby
making...