Oxford Essential French Dictionary: French- English - English-French

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This is my favourite edition of my favourite dictionary, which marks me down as a hopeless dictionary nerd. It contains only the information you might get wrong (St. and St, for instance: which is “saint” and which is “street”?). It’s an acquired taste.

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Burchfield emphasized the inclusion of modern-day language and, through the supplement, the dictionary was expanded to include a wealth of new words from the burgeoning fields of science and technology, as well as popular culture and colloquial speech. Burchfield said that he broadened the scope to include developments of the language in English-speaking regions beyond the United Kingdom, including North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean. Burchfield also removed, for unknown reasons, many entries that had been added to the 1933 supplement. [33] In 2012, an analysis by lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie revealed that many of these entries were in fact foreign loanwords, despite Burchfield's claim that he included more such words. The proportion was estimated from a sample calculation to amount to 17% of the foreign loan words and words from regional forms of English. Some of these had only a single recorded usage, but many had multiple recorded citations, and it ran against what was thought to be the established OED editorial practice and a perception that he had opened up the dictionary to "World English". [34] [35] [36] Revised American edition [ edit ]Wright, Joseph (1 February 1898). "The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years;". London [etc.]: H. Frowde; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons – via the Internet Archive. Academic research: recordings of OED virtual talks and written OED case studies and articles showcasing academic research using the OED.

a b c d e f g h Mugglestone, Lynda (2005). Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10699-2. Version 3.0 was released in 2002 with additional words from the OED3 and software improvements. Version 3.1.1 (2007) added support for hard disk installation, so that the user does not have to insert the CD to use the dictionary. It has been reported that this version will work on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows, using emulation programs. [72] [73] Version 4.0 of the CD has been available since June 2009 and works with Windows 7 and Mac OS X (10.4 or later). [74] This version uses the CD drive for installation, running only from the hard drive.

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