Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Volume III

ISBN-13: 9780198600275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 424 str.

Michael Proffitt

Opis

This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk).
A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).

O autorze

Michael Proffitt is an Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition).