Incorporating a wealth of newly researched material, it includes all the key features of the OED in just two volumes, making it the top-of-the-range Oxford dic. Freshly abridged from the acclaimed Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it represents the ultimate authority on contemporary and historical English, next to the OED itself. The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Updated) 2 Volume Set by Lesley Brown Leather Bound, 3,840 Pages, Published 1995 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-195804-5, ISBN: 0-19-195804-2 "The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is the most significant dictionary of the decade. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, etymology, definitions, variant spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and a record of the word's use." The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Updated) by Lesley Brown, Lesley Brown Oup, William Little Hardcover, 3,836 Pages, Published 1993 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-861134-9, ISBN: 0-19-861134-X "This abridged edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" contains 220,000 entries, and illustrates definitions with quotations which show precisely how the meanings of words have changed over the centuries.
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