The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry. In a complex entry with many strands,...
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English is inherently unrestricted, lacking a centralized academy or official dictionary. There is a reason why neither Globish nor Basic caught on in a |
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The dictionary brings together more than 5600 concepts; these encompassing 5900 terms in the Basque language and 5600 in Castilian (Spanish). |
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While it would be wonderful to have something on hand like the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (only two full print editions of which have come out, |
