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However, that’s not all the OED is. We also offer a wide range of teaching resources, educational virtual events, video guides, and interactive quizzes. Keep reading to find all this below, as well as subscription options for the OED. Collecting the Evidence". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014 . Retrieved 8 June 2014. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, originally started in 1902 and completed in 1933, [81] is an abridgement of the full work that retains the historical focus, but does not include any words which were obsolete before 1700 except those used by Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, and the King James Bible. [82] A completely new edition was produced from the OED2 and published in 1993, [83] with revisions in 2002 and 2007.

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Gilliver, Peter (2013). "Make, put, run: Writing and rewriting three big verbs in the OED". Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. 34 (34): 10–23. doi: 10.1353/dic.2013.0009. S2CID 123682722. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-861258-2): Includes definitions of 500,000 words, 290,000 main entries, 137,000 pronunciations, 249,300 etymologies, 577,000 cross-references, over 2,412,000 illustrative quotations, and is again accompanied by a magnifying glass. The British quiz show Countdown awarded the leather-bound complete version to the champions of each series between its inception in 1982 and Series 63 in 2010. [44] The prize was axed after Series 83, completed in June 2021, due to being considered out of date. [45] Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM Version 4.0: Includes 500,000 words with 2.5 million source quotations, 7,000 new words and meanings. Includes Vocabulary from OED 2nd Edition and all 3 Additions volumes. Supports Windows 2000-7 and Mac OS X 10.4–10.5). Flash-based dictionary.

Boston, Richard (24 March 1989). "The new, 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary: Oxford's A to Z – The origin". The Guardian. London. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography are indeed yet mighty, but not quite what they used to be, whereas the OED has gone from strength to strength and is one of the wonders of the world.

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Winchester, Simon (2003), The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (hardcover), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860702-1 Quinion, Michael (18 September 2010). "Review: Oxford Dictionary of English". World Wide Words . Retrieved 29 July 2014. Winchester, Simon (1998), "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary", Bulletin of the World Health Organization (hardcover), HarperCollins, 79 (6): 579, ISBN 978-0-06-017596-2, PMC 2566457a b Simpson, John (March 2000). "Preface to the Third Edition of the OED". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014 . Retrieved 1 June 2014. Kite, Lorien (15 November 2013). "The evolving role of the Oxford English Dictionary". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766 . Retrieved 22 June 2015. The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-969612-3, facsimile reprint.