11. Antonymic Dictionaries

register words of the same part of speech but different in meaning. Synonymic dictionaries give antonyms together with synonyms and special antonymic dictionaries are very few. Among them – Коммисаров В.И. Словарь антонимов современного английского языка. – М., 1964.

12. Phraseological Dictionaries:

• Cowie A.P., Maskin R. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. Vol. I Verbs with Prepositions and Particles. Oxford, 1975. Next volumes are planned.

One of the best dictionaries published in Japan is: Ichikawa S. The Kenkyusha Dictionary of Current English Idioms. Tokio, 1980.

The best American dictionary of this Kind is Boatner M. T., Gates J. E. A Dictionary of American Idioms / Ed. By A. Makkai. N. Y., 1975).

We must also mention Collins V.H. A Book of English Idioms. Lnd. Longmans, 1956). It was published (перепечатан в СССР) in 1960; A Second Book of English Idioms. Lnd., 1958; A Third Book of English, Idioms. Ind. Each of the books includes about 1.000 phraseologisms.

The best bilingual phraseological dictionary is «Англо-русский фразеологический словарь». А.В. Кунина. It is a real masterpiece, a monument to its compiler. The dictionary describes English phraseologisms from Ch. Dickens (1812-1870) up to Modern English. It was first published in 1955 and now we deal already with the IV th edition containing about 30.000 phraseological units, the material for illustration includes the novels of our contemporaries (!).

13. Dictionaries of Collocations:

They teach the student of English the rules of collocation. Their number is not great.

• Crowell T.L. A Glossary of Phrases with Prepositions. With Exercises: Lnd., 1957; The Kenkyusha Dictionary of English Collocations, Tokyo, 1900;

• Берлизон С.Б. Сочетания типа make up, make for в современном английском языке. – М., 1964;

• Гинзбург Р. и др. Глагольные словосочетания в современном английском языке. – М., 1975.

Dictionaries of Foreign Words

• Mawson C.O. Dictionary of Foreign Terms. N.Y., Bantam Books;

• Newmar K. M. Dictionary of Foreign Words & Phrases. Lnd. Thames and Hudson, 1950;

• Bliss A.J. Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases in Current English. Lnd., Routledge, 1966;

• Carrol D. The Dictionary of Foreign Terms in the English Language. N.Y., Hawthron, 1973.

Dictionaries of Abbreviations and Signs

• Patridge E.A. Dictionary of Abbreviations. Lnd. Constable;

• Allen E. Dictionary of Abbreviations and Symbols. Lnd., 1944;

• Buttress F.A. World List of Abbreviations. 3rd ed. Lnd., Leonard Hill, 1966.

Dictionaries of Quotations, Cliches, Proverbs and Sayings

• Stevenson B. Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern. Lnd., Cassel (70.000); The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1979 (70.000)

• Bartlett J. Familiar Quotations. Lnd. Macmillan.

• Cohen J. M. and M. J. Penguin Dictionary of Quotations;

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;

• Tripp R.T. The International Thesaurus of Quotations. N.Y.

Orthoepic Dictionaries

• Jones D. An English Pronouncing Dictionary / Revised by A.C. Gimson. Lnd., Dent.);

The first edition of the dictionary appeared in 1917, we deal now with the 14th edition (Prof. Gimson A.).

For the American variant of English the most popular is Kenyon J.S. and Knoot T.A. Dictionaries.