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Title: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition) by Lesley Brown, William Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Princ Little ISBN: 0-19-861271-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the second best english dictionary
Comment: despite the odd complaints of the 'websters' fetishist who reviewed this book in 1997, this dictionary is second only to the full oed. it suffers in comparison to its sire only from necessary abbreviations due to size.
i have not been disappointed with it so far, and suspect that scholars, except perhaps of modern animal husbandry and american vernacular, will not be disapointed either. this is an ideal reference for graduate students, and others who have need of a serious text at a reasonable price.
and anyone who claims not to know that 'cilantro' is merely a recent american name for the native european herb 'coriander' (p.511) is not fit, in my humble opinion, to act as a referee for this excellent book!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best dictionary for all
Comment: I'm a mature student of linguistics and English with seven English dictionaries, including two copies of this works earlier edition, a smaller Oxford, a large Webster's and a facsimile edition of Jonson's original dictionary. This dictionary is the one that gets used the most.
For many years I swore by the earlier edition and this new one improves it with a newer selection of words and the thumb indexes for each letter making it a little quicker to find the word you need.
For a student of lexicography this dictionary is unmistakably an Oxford while moving towards a more modern world. While the pronunciation is the good old southern received from the original OED they have moved to the International Phonetic Alphabet from the one developed for the first OED. The layout and typeface for entries are still the same; easily read and well laid out. They keep the same marvelous information regarding derivation of a word but replace a definitive date for earliest use with a symbol that places it in the first second or final third of a century, probably more honest anyway. Like the earlier Shorter Oxford most entries also have usage examples for the word, many offer a usage for each sense of the headword.
While the word choice among the 100,000 or so headwords in these two volumes has some holes they are not large at all and mostly confined to more particular areas that border on jargon or industry specific terms. Like some other reviewers I can bemoan the absence of words in my particular topics of interest but there is no point, almost all people will never notice their absence.
For most of the English speaking world this is the dictionary that all high school and university students should own, the perfect answer for most of us who cannot afford or house the definitive Oxford English Dictionary. OK, it may be fairly costly but a dictionary this good is purchased once a lifetime and one this large will not be lost at school or be left at the bus stop. My family has had an earlier edition for thirty years.
Argument can perhaps be made that within the US, with its more Elizabethan spelling, a home grown dictionary such as Webster's should perhaps be recommended, since the Shorter Oxford lists US spellings and notes where they are the prevalent US spelling I would disagree.
I would recommend this dictionary to everyone who speaks the English language. Every home deserves a copy of this dictionary.
Rating: 4
Summary: The last desktop dictionary you will ever need.
Comment: This edition lives up to its larger predicessor. The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary claims to have every word in use since the eighteenth century. While I doubt it tp be that complete, I have never failed to find an entry. Like all of the Oxford series, this Shorter Dictionary includes notes on usage, other forms, and for certain words lengthy examples from prominent literary works for the time. This is definitely not a quick reference book, although its two 1500-page volumes are more convenient than the full version.
If you are frustrated by college dictionaries or the childrens dictionary you got for your tenth birthday, I would consider this book. It was well worth the considerable price to me.
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Title: Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by Charles T. Onions ISBN: 0198611129 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Fifth Edition) by William R. Trumble, Lesley Brown, Angus Stevenson, Judith Siefring, Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198604572 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles ISBN: 0198601735 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition) by John Bartlett ISBN: 0316084603 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged w/CD-ROM (3.0 version) by Merriam Webster, Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877793026 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $149.00 |
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