Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 2

John Simpson editor Edmund Weiner editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:25th Nov '93

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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 2 cover

The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range. Its contents include: 3,000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including science (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport (strokeless); all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance.

Should be regarded as an essential purchase for a library possessing OED2. * The Year in Reference *

ISBN: 9780198612995

Dimensions: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm

Weight: 675g

384 pages