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The Oxford Companion to the English Language (OCEL ) is missing an s at the end of its title, for it has headings for more than four hundred varieties of our multivaried mother tongue—Australian English, Singapore English, Indian English, Black Vernacular English, etc.
As the OCEL is concerned with language, per se, one would expect such entries to treat the writer's style, and, indeed, the entry on MELVILLE does so; but the treatment is uneven: that for CONRAD, aside from quoting a passage from Heart of Darkness , is barren of comment on language, and that for BURGESS focuses on a quotation of nadtsat' from A Clockwork Orange , with no mention of the author's position (at least in the UK ) as a language guru.
On the other hand, now that I have provided the reference, I suppose that there is no need to add it to the OCEL .
My mother tongue is one of the mutants listed in OCEL , and I am constantly being reminded of the peculiarities of my usage.
The OCEL is, surely, a prodigious undertaking and Tom McArthur, aided by his wife Feri, deserves enormous credit for having produced a well-balanced work.