Book excerpt: A fully revised and updated version of the international bestseller, which now contains over 20,000 headwords. The unique feature of finding correct spellings and their corresponding common misspellings, has been carried over from the original dictionary. Accessible key to spelling rules given on each page. A new introduction gives guidelines on use and a number of appendices look at countries of the world, capital cities, language spoken and nationality names as well as common acronyms.