• ODLT Sources


•  Key Sources


•  A Dictionary of Language (second edition) (David Crystal)


•  The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992) (Tom Mcarthur, editor)


•  The Oxford English Dictionary (2004)



•  Grammar


•  Concise English Handbook (Hans Guth)


•  Harper's English Grammar (John Opdycke)


•  A University Grammar of English (Quirk and Greenbaum)



•  Etymology


•  A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (11th edition) (Walter Skeat)


• Online Etymology Dictionary (Douglas Harper)


•  The Origins and Development of the English Language (Thomas Pyles)



•  Usage Guides


•  Chicago Manual of Style (13th edition)


•  The Complete Plain Words (Sir Earnest Gowers)


•  Dictionary of Troublesome Words (Bill Bryson)


•  The Elements of Style (Strunk and White)


•  Fowler's Modern English Usage (Henry Watson Fowler)


•  Mind the Stop (G.V. Carey)


•  Modern American Usage (Wilson Follett)


•  Usage and Abusage (Eric Partridge)



•  Miscellaneous


•  Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (K.M. Elizabeth Murray)


•  A Mouthful of Air (Anthony Burgess)


•  Our Marvelous Native Tongue (Robert Claiborne)


•  Points of View (Robert Burchfield)


•  Selections for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (Jack Lynch, editor)

Silva Rhetoricae (Gideon O. Burton)

•  A Short History of Linguistics (R.H. Robins)


•  The State of the Language (Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, editors)


•  The Story of Language (Mario Pei)