The English Language Generally

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Dictionaries and Thesauri

  1. Merriam-Webster Dictionary
    http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
  2. The Canadian Oxford dictionary
    2nd ed. by Katherine Barber (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004)
    PE 3235 C36 2004 (Scott Reference)    Amicus No. 29989039
    The internet edition: http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2440634
    1st ed. by Katherine Barber (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998)
    PE 3235 C36 1998 (Law Core)
  3. The Oxford English dictionary,
    2nd ed. by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)
    PE 1625 O 84 1989 (Law Core)
    Additions series, ed. by John Simpson and Edmund Weiner
    PE 1625 O 84 1989 (Law Core)
    The internet edition: http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=247
  4. The Oxford English dictionary : being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement, and bibliography of A new English dictionary on historical principles founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society,
    ed. by James A.H. Murray (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933); reprinted 1978
    PE 1625 M7 1978 (Scott)
  5. Roget's international thesaurus
    4th ed. by Robert L. Chapman (New York: Harper & Row, 1984)
    PE 1591 M37 1984 (Law Core)
    An older edition on the internet: http://www.bartleby.com/110/
  6. Walter S. Avis et al., A Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles, produced for W. J. Gage Limited by the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    (Toronto: Gage, 1967)
    PE 3243 D5 (Law Core)

Grammar and Usage

  1. Grammar, style and usage (Editors' Association of Canada)
    http://www.editors.ca/resources/web_links/grammar.html
  2. Guide to Grammar & Writing (Charles Darling and the Capital Community College Foundation)
    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
  3. Guide to Grammar and Style (Jack Lynch and Rutgers University)
    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
  4. Edufind.com
    http://www.edufind.com/
  5. Jerry Plotnick, "Fixing comma splices" (University College, University of Toronto)
    http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/comma-splices
  6. Lenné Eidson Espenschied, The grammar and writing handbook for lawyers
    (Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, c2011)
    KF 250 E82 2011 (Law Core)
  7. Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine, Guide to Canadian English usage
    2nd ed. (Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2007)
    PE 3235 F44 2007 (Scott Reserve)
    1st ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997)
    PE 3235 F44 1997 (Law Core)
  8. Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy, Cambridge grammar of English : a comprehensive guide: spoken and written English grammar and usage
    (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006)
    PE 1112 C33 2006 (Frost)
  9. Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge grammar of the English language
    (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
    PE 1106 H74 2002 (Frost)
  10. Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy, Cambridge grammar of English : a comprehensive guide: spoken and written English grammar and usage
    (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006)
    PE 1112 C33 2006 (Frost)
  11. Robert Allen, ed., Pocket Fowler's modern English usage
    2nd ed. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008)
    Amicus No. 34074534
    Electronic (York)
    The internet edition: http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=65590
  12. Robert Allen, ed., Pocket Fowler's modern English usage
    updated ed. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004)
    Amicus No. 34466101
  13. H. W. Fowler, A dictionary of modern English usage,
    2nd ed. by Sir Ernest Gowers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965)
    PE 1628 F65 1965 (Law Core)
  14. Ronald G. Hardie and Alice Grandison, Collins Gem English grammar
    (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2003)
    OCLC No. 59876694
  15. Ronald G. Hardie and Alice Grandison, Collins Gem English grammar
    (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2000)
    Amicus No. 25512976
  16. Ronald G. Hardie, Collins Gem English grammar
    (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1990)
    OCLC No. 19518518
  17. "English Grammar" in M. Harris, Legal Writing: Principles of Juriography
    (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997) at 4
    KF 250 H37 1997
  18. Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage
    (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1994)
    PE 1460 M45 1994 (U. of Toronto Innis College Reference)
  19. E.S.C. Weiner and Andrew Delahunty, The Oxford guide to English usage
    2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
    PE 1460 W435 1994 (Law Core)
  20. Otto Jespersen, A modern English grammar on historical principles
    (London : Allen & Unwin, 1949)
    PE 1101 J56 1949 (Law Core)
  21. H.W. Fowler, The King's English
    2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908)
    Amicus No. 15179049
    PE 1460 F6 1922 (Scott)
    The internet edition: http://www.bartleby.com/116/

Writers's Handbooks

  1. William E. Messenger et al., Writing English: The Canadian handbook
    (Don Mills, Ont. : OUP Canada, 2011)
    Amicus No. 38815454
  2. William E. Messenger et al., The Canadian writer's handbook
    5th ed. (Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2008)
    Amicus No. 33439574
  3. H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron, and Murray McArthur, The Little, Brown handbook
    6th Canadian ed. (Toronto : Pearson Longman, 2010)
    Amicus No. 35706104
  4. Lynn Quitman Troyka and Douglas Hesse, Simon & Schuster handbook for writers
    5th Canadian ed. (Toronto : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010)
    Amicus No. 33968812
  5. Cheryl Glenn, The writer's Harbrace handbook
    1st Canadian ed. (Toronto : Thomson Nelson, 2006)
    Amicus No. 32422416
  6. John C. Hodges et al., Harbrace handbook for Canadians
    6th ed. (Scarborough, Ont. : Thomson Nelson, 2003)
    PE 1112 H6 2003    Amicus No. 27657633
  7. William Strunk, The Elements of Style,
    4th ed. rev. by E.B. White (Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2000)
    PE 1408 S772 2000 (Scott Reserve)
    An older edition on the internet: http://www.bartleby.com/141/
  8. Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The reader over your shoulder : a handbook for writers of English prose
    2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1979)
    PR 751 G7 1979 (Scott)
    A summary, by Alec Gill: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cetag/3igraves.htm
    An appreciation, by LeisureGuy (11 November 2006):
         http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/robert-graves-1895-1985/
    A critique, by John Clifford, College Composition and Communication Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 1980):107-109
         http://ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/login?url=http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/stable/356650


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