He has drawn on a wide range of sources--including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony--to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in and beyond.
It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people--many of them remarkable individuals--who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half. In a portable and durable format, it is an excellent all-purpose dictionary, and is particularly suitable for secondary school level.
The emphasis is therefore on clarity and accessibility both in terms of layout and content. The attractive new design makes it very easy to find the information you need, while definitions arewritten in clear and simple English, avoiding technical vocabulary. Pronunciation guidance is given using a simple respelling system. Extra help is provided in the shape of in-text notes which give guidance on spelling, usage, and selected word origins, and special panels which cover general grammar points, such as punctuation, word building, and parts of speech.
The Little Oxford Dictionary is further enhanced by a page quick reference supplement, which includes frequently misspelled words and commonly confused pairs of words, as well as lists of wedding anniversaries and countries and currencies. This title replaces the previous edition ISBN Ideal support for Controlled Assessments. The text of this version now includes almost 2, words and phrases from the OED team's ongoing revision program, as well as the full text of the OED Second Edition, published in , the Oxford English Dictionary Addition Series Volumes , published in and , the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material.
I have read the OED so you don't have to Like a lexicographical Edmund Hillary, Ammon Shea set out to boldly read, where no reader has gone before - from cover to cover.
Reading the OED gives a very funny account of his coffee-fuelled twelve months lost inside its 20 volumes. Divided into 26 chapters, one per letter of the alphabet, this book is part personal narrative exploring everything from love to glasses to the superiority of books over computers and part a collection of Shea's favourite discoveries.
These span from the oddly useful parabore - a defence against bores to the downright bizarre natiform - shaped like buttocks and takes in Nashe's eight different kinds of drunkenness and all kinds of other strangely memorable information along the way. Filled with curiosities, delights and surprises, Reading the OED is a feast for language obsessives, from a man who loves words perhaps a little too much.
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations.
Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long periods of residence abroad punctuated by repeated travels between Britain and India: childhoodoverseas followed by separation from parents and education in Britain; adult returns to India through careers or marriage; furloughs, and ultimately retirement, in Britain.
As a result, many Britons neither felt themselves to be rooted in India, nor felt completely at home when back in Britain. Their permanent impermanence led to the creation of distinct social realities and cultural identities.
Empire Families sets out to recreate this society by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain.
Focusing for the first time on the experiences of parents and children alike, and including the Beveridge, Butler, Orwell, and Kipling families, ElizabethBuettner uncovers the meanings of growing up in the Raj and an itinerant imperial lifestyle.
This is a reissue of the ninth edition of the world's longest-established and best-selling pocket English dictionary. It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly-acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English and is particularly user friendly with its elegant open design, with different elements starting on new lines. It offers excellent coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, andthousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage.
All irregular noun, verb, and adjectival inflections are spelled out in full, while guidance on grammar and good usage is provided by in-text notes. Additional features include Wordbuilder boxes giving information on related words and thematic tables on subjects such as countries, chemical elements, and nationalities.
This title replaces ISBN: Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary.
Book jacket. Begun in England years ago, it took more than 60 years to complete and, when it was finally finished in , the British prime minister heralded it as a 'national treasure'. It maintained this image throughout the twentieth century, and in the English public voted it an 'Icon of England', alongside Marmite, Buckingham Palace and the bowler hat.
However, this book shows that the dictionary is not as 'British' as we all thought. The linguist and lexicographer, Sarah Ogilvie, combines her insider knowledge and experience with impeccable research to show that the OED is in fact an international product in both its content and its making.
She examines the policies and practices of the various editors, applies qualitative and quantitative analysis, and finds new OED archival materials in the form of letters, reports and proofs.
She demonstrates that the OED, in its use of readers from all over the world and its coverage of World English, is in fact a global text. The first historical study of English synonyms provides data on changing terms arranged topically in more than two hundred thousand categories dealing with the external world, the mind, and society, and treating each part of speech.
Completely revised and updated, with over 6, entries covering terms from marketing to taxation and accounting, business strategy to international finance, human resources management to banking, this dictionary will prove indispensable to both students and professionals. It also covers U. The original edition was prepared on the assumption that it would be of use of students of all kinds of business courses, ranging from GCSE Business Studies to degree and postgraduate business subjects, as well as to business people and their professional advisers layers, bankers, accountants, managers, insurers,etc.
In the third edition, special attention was paid to the vocabulary used in the business strategy, organizational behaviour, marketing, and human resources management. This third edition has brought the book into 21st century, with a special emphasis on the use of Internet in commercial practices. The burgeoning vocabulary of e-commerce and interactive marketing is a feature of this edition.
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