English Usage and Dictionaries
- Online Writing Lab at Purdue University (OWL): Writing in North American Higher Education:Although this section of the OWL website is intended for international students studying in the U.S., the information contained therein is useful for any freshman college student.
- Oxford Reference Online: Language ReferenceUseful items include: the Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style; Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage; A Dictionary of Abbreviations; Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms; and the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)"About 600,000 words … 3 million quotations … over 1000 years of English. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language."
- Oxford ReferenceThe full range of Oxford Reference online sources - English dictionaries & specialized reference materials.
