The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers & Editors" is the essential A-Z guide for everyone who works with words. Drawing on the expertise of the Oxford Dictionaries department it provides authoritative advice on those words & names which raise questions time after time because of spelling capitalization hyphenation or cultural or historical context. As well as lexical terms there are many proper names included: from place names & personal names to names of institutions literary references & books of the Bible. Entries give full coverage of recommended spellings variant forms confusable words hyphenation capitalization foreign & specialist terms proper names & abbreviations. " The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers & Editors" follows in the footsteps of its illustrious predecessor " The Authors & Printers Dictionary" published in 1905 & later called " Oxford Dictionary for Writers & Editors"; for the centenary year the entries have been reselected & the text has been entirely rewritten. " The Oxford Dictionary for Writers & Editors" has long been an indispensable part of any editors reference shelf; now the text is even more useful than before & appears in a new handbook size. It is an essential tool for writers editors publishers journalists & web editors & together with " New Harts Rules" & the " New Oxford Spelling Dictionary" forms the complete editorial reference set."