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  • Paperback: 898 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; 6 edition (1 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198614241
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198614241
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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This is a new and fully updated edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary, offering over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing hundreds of millions of words. For the new edition the definitions are clearer than ever before and there are extra usage notes to help with tricky points of grammar. Brand-new spelling notes give quick and easy help on commonly misspelled words, such as exaggerate and necessary. A brand-new Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on people, places, and events, as well as useful lists of, for example, the world's seas and oceans, presidents and prime ministers, and countries and currencies. This portable and affordable dictionary is ideal for puzzle and crossword-solving, but also perfect for general reference at home, at school, or in the office. A new open design ensures that this dictionary is even more accessible and easier to use than ever before.

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37 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Portable, handy, detailed., 8 Oct 2007
By R. Garner "Bookworm" (London) - See all my reviews
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This is the first dictionary I reach for if I want to find a definition of a word. It's also the first book I reach for if I want information on a famous person, or need to know where a particular place is.

In short, it's a dictionary and encyclopedia in one very handy size.

Plus points:
> it's easy to find any of the 120,00 definitions: the letter markers are visible from the outside.
> includes a thorough mid-section on famous people and places
> plentiful grammar and usage boxes (e.g. between diffuse and defuse).

Oh yes, it's also less than £8. A literal bargain.
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19 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Year olds love it, 14 Nov 2007
By Mr. G. Sawyer (UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought it for our kids as a reference book. They sit and read it! The only thing is, it doesn't have the rude words in I remember looking up up as a child.

Also has handy 'usage' boxes which gives direction on how some words cam be used.

Well worth getting in my opinion.
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68 of 108 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A favourable lexicon for the parsimonious consumer, 11 Aug 2007
By Wayne Redhart "Also on Twitter!" (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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A compendium of 120,000 definitions advances itself as an uncommonly intimidating treatise but, lo, I garnered the tenacity to venture forth on an arduous quest of nigh incomprehensible magnitude. My pursuits of rhetorical erudition were both prolonged and tortuous. Indeed, I must yield that the whimsy of surrender infrequently manifested itself as a courtesan of nectareous temptation. Fortuitously, my resolve was but consolidated when I observed a distention in the radius of my parlance and the tender allure of acquiescence was hastened asunder. Indeed, I can affirm without recourse to fallacy that the juncture of my undertakings culminated most expeditiously- prior to the desistance of the tertiary synodic month.

In short, this exhaustive scholastic glossary of the English idiom was most appeasing to my propensity for the conglomerative acquisition of wisdom (although my spouse Doreen has experienced sufficient discombobulation as to articulate the apprehension that my prevailing manner of discourse is akin to that of a bovine sphincter).
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