The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles /

By:

Little, William

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press, c1956.Edition: 3rd ed. (revised with addenda)Description: 2515 pSubject(s):

DDC classification:

423 LIT

LOC classification:

PE1625 .L53 1956

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library Reference	Reference	423 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100105291

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.

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