Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 2
John Simpson editor Edmund Weiner editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:25th Nov '93
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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