A common form of LSP dictionary is a "'usage dictionary "'for a particular field or genre, such as journalism, providing advice on words and phrases to prefer or prefer, and distinctions between easily confused usages.
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Some usage dictionaries are intended for a general rather than specialized audience, and are therefore more comprehensive; two major ones are " Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage " and " Garner's Modern English Usage ".
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For the most part, we take these words for granted, but " occasionally someone notices that the first element in one of these compounds can be read as an adjective, " note Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans in their 1957 usage dictionary.
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There wasn't even a debate till midcentury; H . W . Fowler doesn't mention important ( ly ) at all, and H . L . Mencken, in 1919, himself used most importantly, the Merriam-Webster usage dictionary notes.
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""'A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles " "'( "'DCHP "') is a historical usage dictionary of words, expressions, or meanings which are native to Canada or which are distinctively characteristic of Canadian usage though not necessarily exclusive to Canada.
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The 1996 third-edition, re-titled as " The New Fowler s Modern English Usage " ( revised in 2004 ) was mostly rewritten by Robert W . Burchfield, as a usage dictionary that incorporated corpus linguistics data; and the 2015 fourth-edition, re-titled " Fowler s Dictionary of Modern English Usage ", edited by Jeremy Butterfield, is like the third edition.
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Victor H . Mair, a sinologist and professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, first proposed the idea of a computerized pinyin Chinese-English dictionary in his 1986 lexicographical review article " The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese . " He defined " alphabetically arranged dictionary " to mean a dictionary in which all words ( " c?" ^ ?) are " interfiled strictly according to pronunciation.
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But less is also used for countables, and has been since the dawn of English, in constructions where the counting _ or countability _ isn't the point . ( Merriam-Webster's usage dictionary notes that this less had a 700-year run before someone noticed, in 1770, that it might be good quibble fodder . ) " They earn less than $ 6 an hour " means any amount below that, not just $ 5, $ 4, $ 3, $ 2, or $ 1.
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Usage writers throughout the century have been making fun of the fake " rule " about prepositions : In the 1926 edition of Modern English Usage, H . W . Fowler calls it a " cherished superstition, " and most usage guides since _ Bernstein's " The Careful Writer " ( 1965 ), Harper's usage dictionary ( 1985 ), Oxford's Modern English Usage ( 1998 ) _ note that constructions like " Which shelf do the plates go on ? " and " rules to live by " are good and idiomatic English.
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Supporting volumes have been issued, including " The American Heritage Book of English Usage ", " The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots ", " The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary ", " The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms ", " The American Heritage Thesaurus " in various sizes; usage dictionaries of special vocabulary such as " The American Heritage Science Dictionary ", " The American Heritage Medical Dictionary " and " The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms "; plus special dictionary editions for children, high-school students, and English-language learners.
