Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series |
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| Editor:
| Simpson, John A.
Weiner, Edmund S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-861292-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Work in progress supplementing the OED6l The first in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Aditions Volume 1 contains, 3, 000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range.BL3,000 new words and senses; 20, 000 illustrative quotations;BL world coverage of English, including the UK (assisted place,steaming), North America (metroplex,, statie), Australia (boatie,...
More DescriptionWork in progress supplementing the OED6l The first in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Aditions Volume 1 contains, 3, 000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range.BL3,000 new words and senses; 20, 000 illustrative quotations;BL world coverage of English, including the UK (assisted place,steaming), North America (metroplex,, statie), Australia (boatie, rego), and the Caribbean (ping-wing, ras);BL a wide range of subjects, including politics (Broad Left), medicine (bursectomy), computing (Unix), thesciences (quasicrystal, bijection), and sport (bases-loaded, forkball);BLfull historical documentation, and dates of first appearance.