Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Compact Oxford English Dictionary When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. Time and Newsweek ran full-page…
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary
When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. Time and Newsweek ran full-page articles. The AP and UPI announced publication over their newswires.
Virtually every major paper in American and in Great Britain covered the event. The New Yorker published an extensive essay. And from every corner, the praise was lavish.
Time called it a scholarly Everest. Newsweek, a celebration of language. And Herbert Mitgang, in The New York Times, called the new OED the last word on words and the arbiter of the English language as it is read and spoken all over the world.Now comes the Compact Edition of OED II, which captures all the wealth of scholarship found in the original edition in just one volume.
The Compact is not an abridgement,
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