Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series

ISBN-13: 9780198612995 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 336 str.

John Weiner; Edmund S. Weiner; John Simpson

Opis

Work in progress supplementing the OED 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. BL Its contents include: 3, 000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; BL world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including sceince (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport (strokeless); BL all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); BL full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance.

Recenzje

Should be regarded as an essential purchase for a library possessing OED2.

O autorze

J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner are Lexicographers in the Oxford Languages department.