Question : I want an English dictionary of usage and common errors
How to use a word and how not to use it
I was strolling in my local bookshop, looking for new books to put in my bookshelves for future reading. I get stock some times at the English dictionaries section. I checked the few they had wander if I would find an English dictionary like the French Multi Dictionnaire.
What this dictionary is about? In French you have two main dictionaries: an encyclopedic one, Le Larousse, and a linguistic one, Le Robert. There is also another one that has small definition of words. It tells you how to use the word and how not to use the word. It tells you the common errors people do when using it. There it is: Le Multi Dictionnaire.
It's exactly this type of English dictionary I need. I need to know how to use and not to use a word, the errors I would make by using it.
Which English dictionary are you using? Is there such an English dictionary available on the market? Do you have other reference books to suggest?
Thank for your help.
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Update 26 Mars 2004
I finally found what I was searching for: Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Learners Of English and the Bbi Dictionary of English Word Combinations. An Idiom dictionary is always interesting too!
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