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The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

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To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. This dictionary also makes an excellent end table, if you're not the sort of person who is bothered by coffee rings to your books. Please try again later as the restrictions may be lifted, or contact your service provider if the issue persists. Because finally I don't have one of those pesky jobby-jobs or any real responsibilities at all, now when I come across a word I don't know I have plenty of time to look it up in my Big Dictionary! By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Wanna' be entertained as never before by learning how little you know about the language you have been using for your entire stinking life? No matter how much the English language changes, going back and seeing where words came from is valuable activity. Sometimes, when I lug around my own copy of this big old thing, I think of it as a tombstone, signifying the death of printed encyclopedias and language usage books and dictionaries. I open random pages and read, then go where it takes me An endless experiment in the language, something new each time.Quicker access and more informative than the online version (not many books can say that today) and cheaper than the annual subscription. Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. Straightforward definitions are accompanied by plenty of example sentences to show how words behave in the language. In fact (and I realize that by now I am starting to sound a little insane), we have two copies in our house.

I didn't need to see an entire history of it and a bibliography of where all the words were discovered for the first time in print and how the definition has changed in the last 500 years. This edition includes a wide selection of new words and phrases, together with extra advice on how to improve your writing. 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. It's a set made to be used - sturdy binding, clear type, table-sized slipcase, handy drawer for stuff - and that just makes me love it more.I kinda wish I had the larger-print, two volume set, though there is definitely something to be said for having it all in one book. Anne McGee and Phyllis Creme, Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, University College London You may also be interested in. If I want to know what Boswell or Chaucer meant when they were using a certain word, all I had to do is look in this dictionary! With over 144,000 words, phrases, and definitions, it offers comprehensive coverage of current English and is perfect for student reference and everyday study needs. Of course, these are only bits of the definitions, but every time I touch either volume of this book, something wonderful happens.

This edition reproduces 4, 3 column pages on each page; the text is therefore very small and hard to read without the powerful magnifier included. The Compact is not an abridgement, but a direct photoreduction of the entire 20-volume set, with nine pages of the original on every nine-by-twelve page of the Compact (a magnifying glass comes with it). For this, ladies and gentlemen, is the entire 17-volume OED scrunched up into one manageable volume, the replacement for which will not see the light of day until 2037. There is really nothing like spending an hour on a snowy Sunday morning with a mug full of steaming coffee in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, hunched over one of these volumes and just luxuriating in how surprisingly exhaustive the entry for the word "break" is, or realizing that that one time that I accidentally referred to something as being potentially "includible" and then immediately felt like a dope for making up a word was unnecessary as there IS an entry for "includible/includable", or, my gosh, the thrilling experience of learning the etymological roots of the word "ampersand".He is an active teacher at summer schools on the history of English and trains lexicographers in languages which have fewer literary and historical resources than English. 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.

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