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The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (in 2 volumes) (Hardcover)

by OUP (Author), Lesley Brown (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 3801 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; Revised edition edition (9 Sep 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 019861134X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198611349
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 702,504 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This abridged edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" contains 220,000 entries, and illustrates definitions with quotations which show precisely how the meanings of words have changed over the centuries. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, etymology, definitions, variant spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and a record of the word's use.

About the Author
The Editor-In-Chief, Lesley Brown, brings over twenty year's experience of historical lexicography to the project. Her team numbered at its height sixteen lexicographers, plus numerous researchers and advisors.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure for anyone who loves the English Language, 17 Dec 2000
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The New Shorter OED is far more than a dictionary - it forms a living history of the English language, and shows how English has evolved from Shakespeare's times to the mid-90s.

The dictionary is derived from the Second Edition of the OED, and manages to condense that vast work into something that can sit comfortably on your bookshelves without crowding everything else out. In these two volumes, totalling nearly 3800 pages, you'll find about half a million definitions - so it's almost guaranteed that you'll come across something fascinating, obscure or bizarre on almost every page.

Although the Shorter OED is admirably suited to being used for serious work, it's also great fun - a quick consultation of it to look up a word can, if you have the time, often also turn into a couple of hours of browsing... and in my opinion, there can be no higher praise for a work of reference than that.

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