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Tom McArthur is a British linguist, and editor of English Today.[1][2] He compiled the Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English[3] as the first thematic monolingual learner's dictionary, complementing the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by bringing together sets of words with related meanings,[4] and later published an English Language title in the Oxford Companions series.[5] He has also published paperbacks on the Bhagavad Gita.[6][7]

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  1. ^ The Amazing World of Englishes: A Practical Introduction Peter Siemund, Julia Davydova, Georg Maier - 2012 - Page 29 3110266466 "Tom Mcarthur is the author of a much discussed model of World Englishes published in the july issue of English Today in 1987. In his model, he proposes that Englishes should be organised into three different circles. at the very centre of the model there is World Standard English, which is an idealised variety of written English. The second circle of the model is allotted to those regional varieties of English that have developed or have started to develop their own standards. The third circle of the model is occupied by those forms of English that are not codified in..."
  2. ^ Garner's Modern American Usage - Page xxxvii 0195382757 Bryan Garner - 2009 "—Robert W. Burchfield Shortly after the first edition of my Modern American Usage appeared in 1998, a British reviewer—the noted linguist Tom McArthur—remarked about it: “Henry Watson Fowler, it would appear, is alive and well and living "
  3. ^ Addison-Wesley 1981, ISBN 0582556368
  4. ^ Martin Stark (2011). Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries. p. 167-168.
  5. ^ McArthur, Tom, ed. (1992). The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-214183-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)
  6. ^ Tom McArthur (1971). An Easy to Read Bhagavad Gita.
  7. ^ Tom McArthur (1986). Yoga and the Bhagavad-Gita.


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