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Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edition (Full CD)
Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edition (Full
CD)
The eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary has been fully revised, updated, and
redesigned, as
is appropriate for the first Concise of the 21st
century. The dictionary contains more than 240,000
words, phrases,
and meanings, of which almost 2,000 are new to this
edition.
The new entries give us a snapshot of life in 2004.
The news is filled with talk of gangmasters, the
congestion
charge, sky marshals, and health tourism; pole
dancing, bookcrossing, and speed dating are the things
that
entertain us; football matches can end in handbags,
and bumsters are popular with middle youth and
metrosexuals.
And, of course, if we want to make something seem more
interesting we sex it up.
The Concise also says croeso (welcome) to some Welsh
words with bore da (good morning) and iechyd da (good
health)
joining thousands of words from all around the
English-speaking world: dicky (car boot) and batchmate
(classmate)
from India, spinny (mad, crazy) from Canada, and
bloviate (talk at length in an inflated or empty way)
from
America.
Features new to this edition include a greatly
increased number of boxed usage notes, offering
with tricky
questions of English. There are also around a hundred
special Word Histories, which trace the stories of
some of
the language's most interesting words. For example,
did you know that cloud originally meant 'hill'? A
gossip was a
godfather or godmother, a lady was someone who made
bread, and the original Tories were outlaws or
robbers. Also
(lexicographers love this one), the words grammar and
glamour are linked!
Appendices include useful tables of factual
information, a discussion of the language used in
electronic
communication, an explanation of the different levels
of English, and a guide to good English.
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