 | Collins English Dictionary by Collins
Buy new: £30.00 / Used from: £17.00 The English dictionary that gets you to the information you want with the least fuss.
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 | Write Right: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar and Style by Jan Venolia
Buy new: £11.25 / Used from: £2.35 A real desktop essential.
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 | Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
Buy used from: £0.90 Sorts out the most common misunderstandings with wit and clarity. The only grammar book I've read all the way through in the bath.
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 | Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.01 One of only two works of historical linguistics I know that are laugh-out-loud funny. Bryson also wrote the other one.
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 | Made in America by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.21 / Used from: £0.01 This is the other one.
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 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia
Buy used from: £12.23 Can never repalce a search engine but the precision and clarity of the entries keeps me reading long after I've found what I want.
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 | Office Standard Edition 2003 (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint)
Buy used from: £150.00 Contains the word processor all the best translation and proofing tools are written for
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 | StarOffice 7.0
This has been widely used in Germany for years and it does support Unicode, so I've decided to give it a go.
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 | Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: 150th Anniversary Edition by Peter Mark Roget
Buy new: £19.98 / Used from: £14.75 If a synonym isn't in this, you probably shouldn't be using it anyway.
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 | The New Routledge Dutch Dictionary Dutch-English/English-Dutch by R. Hempelman
Buy new: £19.69 / Used from: £18.00 Not as extensive as the Van Dale but based on it and portable
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 | Collins German Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged
Buy used from: £19.78 The only general German-English dictionary I now use.
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