The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles /
Little, William.
The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles / - 3rd ed. (revised with addenda) - Oxford : Clarendon Press, c1956. - 2515 p. ;
This dictionary is designed to embrace not only the literary and colloquial English of the present day together with such technical and scientific terms as are most frequently met with or are likely to be the subject of inquiry, but also a considerable proportion of obsolete, archaic, and dialectal words and uses. It was compiled and edited from materials amounting to over five million quotations, derived from English works of literature and records of all kinds, and resulted in 15,000 large quarto pages, in which nearly half a million words are recorded with more than one and a half million illustrative quotations.
English language.
English language--Etymology
PE1625 / .L53 1956
423 / LIT
The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles / - 3rd ed. (revised with addenda) - Oxford : Clarendon Press, c1956. - 2515 p. ;
This dictionary is designed to embrace not only the literary and colloquial English of the present day together with such technical and scientific terms as are most frequently met with or are likely to be the subject of inquiry, but also a considerable proportion of obsolete, archaic, and dialectal words and uses. It was compiled and edited from materials amounting to over five million quotations, derived from English works of literature and records of all kinds, and resulted in 15,000 large quarto pages, in which nearly half a million words are recorded with more than one and a half million illustrative quotations.
English language.
English language--Etymology
PE1625 / .L53 1956
423 / LIT