encyclopaedias

Most of these little letter groupings pop up in academia like prairie dogs across the plains, in journals, dissertations and encyclopedias (or "encyclopaedias" - more on that later).

The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03 2009

German literature between 1640 and 1740 only indicates a knowledge on the part of German readers either of Dryden's criticisms or of the accounts of him printed in English encyclopaedias.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.

Global Warming Digest: The U.K.’s Big Freeze | RedState 2010

Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.

Right Wing News 2010

Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.

Latest Articles 2010

I suggest putting a period after "encyclopaedias" and a capital "i" on "in", and putting the final period after "please" inside the parentheses, although if that makes it sound less funny I think you can leave it as it is.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

Together we wrote more than 60 reference books and encyclopaedias, which have been published in more than 80 countries.

Guilty Pleasures 2010

I worked on encyclopaedias, history books, game books and even a children's Bible.

Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, discusses his life and his books 2010

The bookshelves held not only his old textbooks but also the newer paediatric encyclopaedias to which he had contributed articles on scarlatina — the subject of a postgraduate fellowship, as Klara had reminded him.

For Services Rendered Erika Dreifus 2010

I doubt whether there exists a single great work of literature which we would not possess had the author been unable to obtain an exclusive copyright for it; it seems to me that the case for copyright must rest almost entirely on the circumstance that such exceedingly useful works as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, textbooks and other works of reference could not be produced if, once they existed, they could freely be reproduced.

Glaeser on Coercion and Contracts, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009