Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE
SfEP recommended reference books
Dictionaries
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, including CD-ROM (Collins, 5th ed. 2006).
For word breaks common in typesetting.
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: 150th anniversary edition (Penguin, 2006).
Some editors prefer ancient copies of Roget's, darkly suspecting that a number of lovely words are missing from later editions.