The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

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Third edition revised ( ISBN 978-0-19-953296-4): Includes over 150,000 words, phrases, and definitions.

On the other hand, its gravity feels defiant and not only owning the thing but actually using it feels like a rebellion (maybe even a proper middle finger) against the distraction culture that I simultaneously overindulge in and yet detest. I own it and use it for reference (when my eyes are feeling up to it), but I certainly haven't read every word.In 1993 as Deputy Chief Editor he took charge of the revision of etymologies, pronunciations, and grammatical terms in the Dictionary. I love my OED and if there were such a thing as the 'Dictionary Police' who went around confiscating peoples dictionaries--they would have to pry this one from my cold dead fingers.

More than 100 years in the making, The Oxford English Dictionary is now universally acknowledged as the world's greatest dictionary and one of the greatest works of scholarship ever produced. He takes a keen interest in particular aspects of the vocabulary of English, including the language of Early Modern English non literary documents (such as wills and inventories), the terminology of English grammar (the subject of a book he co-authored), the vocabulary of Anglo-Jewry, and the English of South Africa, where many of his extended family live. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.Perennials PERENNIALS constant friends A selection of novels, memoirs and more by some of our favourite authors. Still, it covers terms not included in the largest Webster's and can prove infuriatingly useful in Scrabble. I feel I should say that I have not read the entire thing for that would have been an Amazing feat on itself however I do love reading different parts of it just opening up to a random page and seeing what’s on it.

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Throughout the dictionary text there are notes giving advice on the use of good English, and highlighting the differences between commonly confused words such as empathy and sympathy, and affect and effect, as well as thousands of example phrases showing words in context. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.I obtained this, which, with supplements, is the most complete dictionary of the English language, as an introductory offer from The Book of the Month Club soon after matriculating at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Given the tiny print, four pages of the original set on each page of this edition, this OED is difficult to use.