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040 _aDLC
_cCarP
050 0 0 _aPE1625
_b.L53 1956
082 _a423
_bLIT
100 1 _aLittle, William.
245 1 4 _aThe shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles /
250 _a3rd ed. (revised with addenda)
260 _aOxford :
_bClarendon Press,
_cc1956.
300 _a2515 p. ;
520 _aThis 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.
590 _ane 28/09/2021
591 _aRef.
650 0 _aEnglish language.
650 0 _aEnglish language--Etymology
700 1 _aFowler, H. W.
700 1 _aCoulson, Jessie.
700 1 _aOnions, C. T.
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
949 _a423 LIT
999 _c17875
_d17875