The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters

Pam Peters

Pam Peters is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has been on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Standing Committee on Spoken English for the past 12 years, and published several books on Australian and international English usage, including...

 is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. It is based on extensive, up-to-date corpus data

Corpus linguistics

Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...

 rather than on the author’s personal intuition or prejudice, and differentiates between US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages. British lexicographer Sidney Landau remarked:

See also

• Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
  Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
  Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently available in a reprint edition ISBN 0-87779-132-5 or ISBN 978-0877791324. Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is a usage...
  
  
• Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969...
  
   was the first dictionary to use corpus data
• List of English words with disputed usage