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| Oxford Dictionary of English (Gebundene Ausgabe)
von Catherine Soanes, Angus Stevenson
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| Kurzbeschreibung: | | Authoritative and comprehensive coverage of today's English. Revised and updated edition providing accurate contemporary information. Unique definition style - with the most recent deifnitions placed first. Draws on the findings of the largest language research programme in the world. 355,000 words, phrases and definitions.-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Synopsis: | | | "The Oxford Dictionary of English" is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the 800-million-word Oxford English Corpus. This revised edition includes hundreds of brand-new words and senses, as well as up-to-date encyclopaedic information, and extensive appendices covering topics such as countries, heads of state, and chemical elements. The dictionary with two extra offerings: for UK and selected markets only, there is a free booklet, "Curious Words and Quirky Expressions", containing lists of intriguing vocabulary selected from "Oxford Dictionaries". Do you know what phizogs and schnozzles are? Or gunsels and snaphances? Find a new name for your sweetheart, and discover new phobias in this entertaining booklet, which guarantees to broaden your vocabulary, and to amuse and entertain. In addition, the purchase of this edition includes a free subscription to the on-line version of the "Oxford Dictionary of English", until end of January 2007, allowing you to search the full text of the dictionary electronically and to have the dictionary at your fingertips whenever you go on-line. |
Rezensionen: | | For many speakers and learners of English, the word "Oxford" spells authority about language. The second edition of theOxford Dictionary of Englishis no exception. Any dictionary which comes from Oxford University Press (whose origins lie in the Middle Ages, the foundation of the university and the dawn of printing) tends to be in a different league from its competitors.
Based on the "Oxford English Corpus", language databases, which amount to "hundreds of millions of words of written and spoken English in machine-readable form", this hefty single-volume dictionary has four million words of text. That includes 355,000 words phrases and definitions, 12,000 encyclopaedic entries and 68,000 explanations. The statistics are mind blowing.
Like all good dictionaries it's bang up to date. "Greasy spoon", "data smog" and "WMD" are all here, scrupulously glossed. So, of course are wonderful, old, near-obsolete words like "editrice" and "bouffant". Plenty of proper names get in too. Did you know that a "Queensland blue" is a cattle dog with a dark speckled body as opposed to a "Queensland nut" which is another name for the macadamia nut?
Like other new dictionaries theOxford Dictionary of Englishprovides boxed usage notes which point up, say, the difference between "pedal" and "peddle" or discuss the vexed old question of whether infinitives may be split. More unusual are the 14 detailed appendices on, for example, English in electronic communications, collective nouns and proof-reading marks. Most useful of all is probably the "Guide to Good English" which manages to be both admirably concise and immaculately clear. --Susan Elkin-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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