Oxford English Dictionary (2010)

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Oxford English Dictionary: Collection of 4 Major Dictionaries (2010) |
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution
of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million
words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5
million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery books

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution
of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million
words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5
million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery books.

The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North
America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the
Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in
listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the
International Phonetic Alphabet.

As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very
different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only
present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or
senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various
groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to
the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations
appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear
further down the entry. In a complex entry with many strands, the
development over time can be seen in a structure with several
?branches?.

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