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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
from: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 423
EAN: 9780198610472
Edition: 11
ISBN: 0198610475
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1728
Publication Date: July 28, 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Editorial Review:
This is a major new edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary, published together with a fully up-to-date text of the dictionary on CD-ROM, containing over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including 1,800 new words. It offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage.
The CD-ROM version of the dictionary offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from WindowsR documents, including email and the Internet, high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, and interactive educational word games, making it ideal for family use, as well as for homework and school use.
New to this edition is a fascinating Word Histories feature, telling the often bizarre stories of the origins and development of hundreds of words. For example, did you know that the word grammar is related to glamour, or that cockney used to mean a spoilt child? This dictionary also contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language, from formal to slang, plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Good new, bad news
Needing a supplement to my aging 1987 Webster, and in particular one reliably giving British usage, I originally bought the Cambridge International Dictionary of English. It's an excellent dictionary, in fact I would say *the* dictionary, for non-native speakers; the entries, explanations and descriptions of usage are wonderfully simple and clear.
But it simply didn't have in it enough of the words I looked up, so I sent it to a friend of mine in Spain who's learning English, and bought ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Resource for Basic Everyday Use...
Hey the Oxford is 27 Volumes, and several thousand dollars. Most Libraries can't even afford it. This is a VERY concise version, and does not have the depth of the "real deal", however it works VERY well for grasping the meaning of an unknown word.
I wanted one good dictionary, and am VERY happy with this one. I highly recommend it for anyone who has a College education.
Rating: - Non-Fiction
Not many people can afford the five figure sum (or the floor space) for the complete oxford dictionary, or even the yearly subscription, so some other version is going to be quite popular.
This is a common edition for the world's most influential dictionary.
Rating:  - A most awkward pronunciation guide
The International Phonetic Alphabet is not the pronunciation guide I grew up with. The "o" sound in "no" is depicted by an upside down and backward "e" followed by an upside down Greek omega. Since it is a British dictionary, the "a" in "bath" is pronounced like the "ar" in "arm", not like "a" in "pat". I use a whole lot more "r" in my pronunciation than a proper Englishman would, too. Stress marks precede the accented syllable with secondary accents depicted by a comma. Syllable divisions are not ... Read More
Rating: - Not exactly what I'd hoped for...
I am an English major and getting ready to go into a Master's degree. I had done extensive research on concise OED's and thought this one sounded the best. I was really hoping to get more backround info on words and more complete definitions. Perhaps there are too many words and just not enough pages! I am still happy to have it and have used it, but it is better for Boggle than anything so far!
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