and grammar.

Although intended primarily for university undergraduate students of English, the book should also be of interest and value to English language teachers and, in fact, to anybody having a fairly good command of the language and an interest in English variation.

The book requires only a minimal knowledge of basic linguistics; acquaintance with the International Phonetic Alphabet, whose symbols are used in many ordinary dictionaries, and fundamental grammatical categories such as prepositions, pronouns, articles, and reported speech.

Karol Janicki is a professor of linguistics in the Department of English, University of Bergen, Norway.