The University of Texas at Austin
School of Information
INF 382D Introduction to Information Resources and Services
DICTIONARIES (Fall 2010)
I.
UNABRIDGED
1. Random House Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd ed. New York: Random House, 1993. PCL
REF PE 1625 R3
2. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster,
1993. PCL REF PE 1625 W36
II.
ETYMOLOGICAL
1. Barrett, Grant. The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English. New York: McGraw Hill,
2006. PCL REF PE 1630 B34
2. Cassidy, Frederic G., ed. Dictionary of American Regional English. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1985. PCL REF PE 2843 D52
3. Hendrickson, Robert. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. 3rd ed.
New York: Facts on File, 2003. PCL REF PE 1689 H47
4. Kirkpatrick, Betty. Clichés: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1996. PCL REF PE 1689 K 48
5. Manser, Martin H. The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. New
York: Checkmark Books, 2002. PCL REF PE 1670 M26
6. Simpson, J. A. and E. S. C. Weiner. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK:
Clarendon Press, 1989. PCL REF PE 1626 O87
7. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 5th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2002. PCL REF PE 1625 S47
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III.
DESK DICTIONARIES
1. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 2000. PCL REF 1628 A623
2. The American Heritage Dictionary. 2nd college ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. PCL
REF PE 1625 A54
3. The American Heritage College Dictionary. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. PCL
REF PE 1628 A6227
4. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam Webster,
2003. PCL REF PE 1628 M36
5. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1997. PCL REF
PE 1628 R28
IV.
HIGH SCHOOL- AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL DICTIONARIES
1. Agnes, Michael, ed. Webster’s New World Children’s Dictionary. 2nd ed. Cleveland, OH:
Wiley, 2006. PCL STX YOUTH PE 1628.5 W3877
2. Levey, Judith S., ed. Macmillan First Dictionary. New York: Macmillan, 1990. PCL STX
YOUTH PE 1628.5 M3
3. Levey, Judith S., ed. Scholastic First Dictionary. New York: Scholastic, 1998. PCL STX
YOUTH PE 1628.5 L45
4. Morris, Christopher. The HBJ Student Thesaurus. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1991. PCL STX YOUTH PE 1591 H39
5. The American Heritage First Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. PCL STX YOUTH
1628.5 K732
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6. The American Heritage Student’s Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. PCL STX PE
1628.5 A46
V.
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE/ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
1. Lamy, Marie-Noelle. The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1998. PCL REF PC 2591 L24
2. Larousse Chambers Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais, English-French. Paris, France:
Larousse, 2005. PCL REF PC 2640 D55
3. Larousse College Dictionary: Spanish-English, Ingles-Espanol. Paris, France: Larousse,
2005. PCL REF 4628 C65
VI.
DICTIONARIES OF SLANG AND DIALECT
1. Dalzell, Tom. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional
English. New York: Routledge, 2009. PCL REF PE 3721 P323
2. Ehrlich, Eugene and Raymond Hand, Jr. NBC Handbook of Pronunciation. New York:
HarperPerennial, 1991. PCL REF PE 1137 E52
3. Spears, Richard A. McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
New York: McGraw Hill, 2004. PCL REF PE 2839 S636
VII.
THESAURI AND USAGE GUIDES
1. Burchfield, R. W. Fowler’s Modern English Usage. PE 1628 F 65
2. Kipfer, Barbrara Ann, ed. Roget’s International Thesaurus. 6th ed. New York:
HarperResource, 2001.
3. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. PCL REF: 1591
R715 2003
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VIII.
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS DICTIONARIES
1.
Stahl, Dean and Karen Kerchelich. Abbreviations Dictionary. 10th Ed. Boca Raton: CRC
Press, 2001. PCL REF PE 1693 D4 2001
2. Reverse Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary. 14th ed. Detroit: Gale, 1990.
PCL REF PE 1693 G3
IX.
ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES
1. Merriam-Webster Online. http://www.merriam-webster.com
2. Oxford English Dictionary.
http://dictionary.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/entrance.dtl
3. Encarta Dictionary.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryHome.aspx
4. The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English, Ingles/Espanol.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/
5. The Internet Acronym Server. http://acronyms.silmaril.ie
6. Acronym Finder. http://www.acronymfinder.com/
7. Oxford Reference Online. (193 titles)
http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/views/GLOBAL.html
8. Spears, Richard A. NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary. http://www.netlibrary.com
9. Spears, Richard A. NTC’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions.
http://www.netlibrary.com
10. Frank, Catherine. Quotations For All Occasions. http://www.netlibrary.com
11. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
http://www.bartleby.com
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12. Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
http://www.bartleby.com
X.
QUOTATION BOOKS
1. Knowles, Elizabeth. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2004. PCL REF PN 6080 O95
2. Webster’s New World Dictionary of Quotations. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, 2005.
PCL REF PN 6080 W43
XI.
SUBJECT DICTIONARIES
1. Audi, Robert. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press, 1999. PCL REF B41 C35
2. Bynum, W. F. and Roy Porter, eds. Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford,
UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. PCL REF Q 173 O94
3. Campbell, Robert J. Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary. 8th ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2004. PCL REF RC 437 H5
4. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 31st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2007. PCL
REF R 121 D73
5. Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville, TN: Holman Reference, 2003. PCL REF BS
440 H65
6. Room, Adrian, comp. Brewer’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable. London: Cassell,
2000. PCL REF PE 1689 B74
7. Safire, William. Safire’s Political Dictionary. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.
PCL REF JK 9 S2 2008
8. VandenBos, Gary R. APA Dictionary of Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American
Psychological Association, 2007. PCL REF BF 31 A63
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