Selected Works
- Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 4 vols, 1972–1986
- The Spoken Word, 1981
- The English Language, 1985
- Studies in Lexicography, 1987
- Unlocking the English Language, 1991
- Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas, 1994
- (ed.) Fowler's Modern English Usage, 1998
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