Welcome to the QES Library. The books above contain all manner of interesting information that you can draw on. Just click on the spine of the book that you want to open and your research can begin. Once you have opened a book, you will find an introduction to help you narrow your search, and so on. The Dictionary and Grammar volumes are, so to say the legislative branch - they lay down the law. The American and British and the Other English volumes clarify some local laws, the Foreign English volume is mostly there for amusement as it shows just how much a language can be deformed by those alien to it and finally the Comedy of Errors volume - together with the separate Rogues' Gallery - is the Judiciary where we put native language offenders on trial. To help you select the book you need, here is a brief description of what each contains:
- Dictionary - To find the meaning or etymology (history) of a word.
- Grammar - To clarify a point of grammar
- British and American - waging the trans-Atlantic battle.
- Other English - This is where we find out how the Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Indians, Africans and other nations use English as their national or official language and give them a chance to tell us how they use it.
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Foreign English - This is another fascinating and amusing volume in which we give examples of the many ways in which English is constantly being deformed and misused by non-English mother-tongue people who are convinced that they have mastered our language, but in fact mutilate it.
- The Comedy of Errors - This is undoubtedly the most important volume in the QES Library. It is here that QES comes into its own for the avowed purpose of the Queen's English Society is to preserve the full richness and beauty of the language and it is this volume of the Library which will list the horrors committed and - through the separate Rogues' Gallery - name and shame the people and institutions who massacre the language even though they should know better. A fascinating volume in which you will find many of the expressions commonly used by English mother-tongue people and which are incorrect - and, of course, the correct form with which to replace them if you want to clean up your English.
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