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Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, The
Provides a brief account of the origins, history, and sense-development of a large part of the vocabulary of modern English, including both basic words and a wide selection of derivative forms. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Designed for English language students, this dictionary describes over 7000 idioms and their variant forms. Illustrations of their use in contemporary English are provided from a wide range of 20th-century writing. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, The
This accessible and comprehensive dictionary seeks to come to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate A-Z access to 1000 grammatical terms and their meanings. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Pages: 748, Paperback, Oxford University Press
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (Oxford Paperback Reference S.)
Pages: 458, Paperback, Oxford Paperbacks
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Oxford Paperbacks The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford Paperback Reference S.)
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Pages: 41, Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press Oxford Dictionary of English
For many speakers and learners of English, the word Oxford spells authority about language. The second edition of the <I>Oxford Dictionary of English</I> is no exception. Any dictionary which comes from Oxford University Press (whose origins lie in the Middle Ages, the foundation of the university and the dawn of printing) tends to be in a different league from its competitors. <p>Based on the Oxford English Corpus, language databases, which amount to hundreds of millions of words of written and spoken English in machine-readable form, this hefty single-volume dictionary has four million words of text. That includes 355,000 words phrases and definitions, 12,000 encyclopaedic entries and 68,000 explanations. The statistics are mind blowing. <p> Like all good dictionaries it's bang up to date. Greasy spoon, data smog and WMD are all here, scrupulously glossed. So, of course are wonderful, old, near-obsolete words like editrice and bouffant. Plenty of proper names get in too. Did you know that a Queensland blue is a cattle dog with a dark speckled body as opposed to a Queensland nut which is another name for the macadamia nut? <p> Like other new dictionaries the <I>Oxford Dictionary of English</I> provides boxed usage notes which point up, say, the difference between pedal and peddle or discuss the vexed old question of whether infinitives may be split. More unusual are the 14 detailed appendices on, for example, English in electronic communications, collective nouns and proof-reading marks. Most useful of all is probably the Guide to Good English which manages to be both admirably concise and immaculately clear. --<I>Susan Elkin</I>
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