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Author: William Branford Publisher: ISBN: Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 1172
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A completly revised and expanded edition of the southern African version of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, this best-seller is packed with hundreds of new words as well as over 2500 South African entries. New Usage Notes provide guidance on standard English, while non-standard English usagesand offensive words are highlighted. Grammar Notes, explaining difficult terms make this a vital dictionary for both teachers and students.
Author: William Branford Publisher: ISBN: Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 1172
Book Description
A completly revised and expanded edition of the southern African version of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, this best-seller is packed with hundreds of new words as well as over 2500 South African entries. New Usage Notes provide guidance on standard English, while non-standard English usagesand offensive words are highlighted. Grammar Notes, explaining difficult terms make this a vital dictionary for both teachers and students.
Author: Catherine Soanes Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195780581 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is a completely revised and updated adaptation for southern Africa of the world's best-selling, most practical pocket English dictionary and now more user-friendly than ever.
Author: William Branford Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 948
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This newly revised and updated pocket dictionary reproduces the text of the internationally renowned Oxford Pocket Dictionary and includes the most current meanings and usage of South African English words. The book encompasses obvious words such as braai and tickey, as well as the different senses in which South Africans use some English words such as robot, just now, and stay well. It also offers: *Over 50,000 words and phrases dealt with in over 900 pages *British and U.S. spellings *2,500 South African entries, examples: fundi, fynbos, indaba, mafuta, potjiekos, staffrider, takkie, township, tsotsi *Vocabulary of science, computers, and technology *Vocabulary of the English literary tradition *South African, British and International abbreviations, examples: CIA, ECU, FBI, IMF, KGB, NUM, UDF, VOC *Pronunciation key: International phonetic alphabet *Usage notes for disputed and racially sensitive items.
Author: Rhodes University. Dictionary Unit for South African English Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 1400
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A concise dictionary for speakers of English, ideal for families, students and professionals. Based on the Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th ed) and adapted for local use at the Dictionary Unit for South African English, Rhodes University, it defines over 200,000 words and phrases, and is distinguished by clear language and design. It is a guide to everyday language, specialist technical, scientific, literary and historical vocabulary, and new words. The almost 2000 items from South African English make it a resource for understanding local culture and current affairs. Features include notes on language usage, a pronunciation guide to words that commonly cause uncertainty, notes on the origins of words, and a list of South African institutions and organizations and their abbreviations.
Author: Catherine Soanes Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198605713 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is a reissue of the ninth edition of the world's longest-established and best-selling pocket English dictionary. It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly-acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English and is particularly user friendly withits elegant open design, with different elements starting on new lines. It offers excellent coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, and thousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage. All irregular noun, verb, and adjectivalinflections are spelled out in full, while guidance on grammar and good usage is provided by in-text notes. Additional features include Wordbuilder boxes giving information on related words and thematic tables on subjects such as countries, chemical elements, and nationalities. This title replacesISBN: 0-19-861334-2.
Author: Jean Branford Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 460
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This scholarly reference work is also an entertaining guide to the English spoken in South Africa. It includes forms of English that are peculiarly South African, as well as words adopted from Afrikaans, African and Khoisan languages, and from local Malay, Indian and Jewish communities. The fourth edition reflects the beginning of a new era in South Africa, and contains quotations from a wide variety of sources, including Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela, among many others.
Author: Joyce Hawkins Publisher: ISBN: 9780195717808 Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 576
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Introduction provides guidance on dictionary and language skills. Useful for adult South African learners whose main language is not English.
Author: William Branford
Author: William Branford
Author: William Brandford
Author: Catherine Soanes
Author: William Branford
Author: Rhodes University. Dictionary Unit for South African English
Author: Catherine Soanes
Author: Henry Watson Fowler
Author: OUP
Author: Jean Branford
Author: Joyce Hawkins