The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Seller Inventory # AAC9780198611868īook Description Hardcover. Subscriptions are available to OED online on an individual or institutional basis. Updated quarterly, this award-winning online resource allows the Dictionary to evolve with the English language while the print edition remains as a historical record. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of sources worldwide - literary, scholarly, technical, and popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isabella Beeton.Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history extensive treatment of etymology and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics.Alongside the print edition is the Oxford English Dictionary Online ). Accompanying each definition is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that trace the usage of words, and show the contexts in which they can be used. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.The OED has a unique historical focus. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardback. ***Special Offer - from 1st August 2008 RRP reduced from £750 to only £450 (valid until 31st January 2009)*** The greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken.- The New York Times Book Description: It is a remarkable work of scholarship, and must rank high among the wonders of the world of learning.- The Times Educational Supplement The greatest dictionary in any language.- The Telegraph The greatest dictionary ever compiled.- Sunday Telegraph The gigantic total picture of the English languagean epic achievement.- The Observer The vast storehouse of the words and phrases that constitute the vocabulary of the English-speaking people is the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day.- The Times The Oxford English Dictionary is more than a national monument to lexicography. The greatest treasure of wordsall the raw material a writer needs for a lifetime of work.- Annie Proulx I could not have become a writer without it.- Anthony Burgess The OED has been to me a teacher, a companion, a source of endless discovery. It is certainly the finest dictionary in the world. These provide a fascinating indication of when and how a word or phrase has first been found in the language. But my chief interest in the OED lies in its rich store of citations.
Then I turn to the 20 hardback volumes for a more leisurely read. Usually, I hunt about first in the cd-rom version because of the speed with which words and phrases can be located.
When I am writing my own books on the origins of well-known phrases and sayings, I always check to see what the OED has to say. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īn obvious choice, maybe, but probably not for the most obvious reason. Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history extensive treatment of etymology and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics.Īlongside the print edition is the Oxford English Dictionary Online (Updated quarterly, this award-winning online resource allows the Dictionary to evolve with the English language while the print edition remains as a historical record. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of sources worldwide - literary, scholarly, technical, and popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin and Isabella Beeton. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
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