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).

These are the first two volumes in a major series supplementing the acclaimed Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary . Each volume contains 3,000 new words and meanings presented in the style of the OED, representing a variety of work-in-progress from across the alphabetical range, covering words and meanings that have recently entered the language as well as the results of further research on items already included.

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...