![]() Modem modem Danish modem Dutch modem French modem GermanĪBBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS mod.Gk mod.Heb. Greek Greek Antiquities Greek Archaeology Greek Architecture Greek Grammar Greek History Greek Mythology Greek Orthodox Church Greek Prosody Greek Rhetoric Middle High German Middle and Modem High German Encompassing all words current in general English from 1700 to the present day, this dictionary provides more than 600,000 definitions and more than 85,000 quotations from seven thousand authors Includes bibliographical references V. Mexican Mexican Spanish Middle Flemish Middle and Modem Merchant of Venice Merry Wives (of Windsor) Middle Breton Middle Danish Middle Dutch Middle and Modem Dutch Middle English Measure for Measure Mechanics Medicine Shorter Oxford English Dict 24.99 Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the. Mythology Classical Prosody classical GreekĬombining (form) (in) combination combinations The text is based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and manages more than one third of the coverage of the OED in one tenth of the size. An updated edition of the reference work for modern English. Points of the compass, are not listed here, but can be found under the McGregor, Lesley Brown (Editor) 4.61 Rating details 61 ratings 7 reviews. General abbreviations, such as those for units of The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press on. Variation according to context will be found. This list the abbreviations are printed in the type TRANSLITERATION TRANSLITERATION OF GREEK a Variant entries which are entries for that I expect and hope that this latest edition has not lost the clarity of explanation which is a hallmark of most Oxford dictionaries.THE NEW SHORTER ENGLISH DICTIONARY THUMB INDEX EDITION With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This version of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary is less forbidding than the older versions which is all to the good. 2,500 new words, many never published in any other dictionary New introductory essay by language guru David Crystal More than 1,000 new illustrative quotations. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700. In my opinion the OED is the best English dictionary for fulfilling the most important function of a dictionary - imparting an understanding of a word. are clear.Īs for the dictionary itself I have yet to make up my mind as I will need to work with it a little bit. It's easy to navigate around, very smooth. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present. ![]() My operating system suggested that installation was faulty but on trying it out it worked fine. I have the full OED on cd and installing that can take quite a while. Windows 7 was not included with the operating systems quoted on the back of the cd cover but it works fine. But it is beach reading compared with the full 20-volume Oxford English. First of all I was not sure if the dictionary would run with Windows 7. Oxford has been around for a long time, so shorter is a relative concept - the two-volume dictionary is 3,792 pages.
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