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Price: $12,000.00

Format:
Leather Binding 22000 pp.
230 mm x 305 mm

ISBN-10:
0191958921

ISBN-13:
9780191958922

Publication date:
April 1999

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford English Dictionary

Second Edition

Edited by John Simpson and Edmund Weiner

The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

The OED has a unique historical focus. Accompanying each definition is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that trace the usage of words, and show the contexts in which they can be used. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of sources worldwide - literary, scholarly, technical, and popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isabella Beeton.

Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions; detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet; listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history; extensive treatment of etymology; and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics.

Alongside the print edition is the Oxford English Dictionary online (www.oed.com). Updated quarterly, this award-winning online resource allows the Dictionary to evolve with the English language while the print edition remains as a historical record. Subscriptions are available to OED online on an individual or institutional basis. Visit www.oup.com/online/oed/ for details.

Readership : Anyone who reads and uses the English language.

Reviews

  • 'It is, of course, the second edition of the greatest dictionary of all'
    William Russell, Glasgow Herald
  • 'The dimensions of the dictionary are awe-inspiring. A wonderfully versatile research tool'
    The Economist
  • 'The alpha, the omega, and some 464,000 more words besides. Incomparable.'
    The Sydney Morning Herald
  • 'a near miracle of data processing ... a thorough-going revision of the greatest dictionary of the English language ... OED2 is a work that no serious researcher can afford to ignore'
    Peter Baker, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Notes and Queries, March 1991

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John Simpson is Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Edmund Weiner is Principal Philologist of the OED (2/e) and co-author of The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar and The Oxford Guide to English Usage.

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