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Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edit

New edition of the world famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary provides an authoritative description of the English language. With instant access to over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, this program is ideal for anyone needing an up-to-date dictionary of current English on their PC for study, work, or home.

The eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has been fully revised, updated, and redesigned, as is appropriate for the first Concise of the 21st century. The dictionary contains more than 240,000 words, phrases, and meanings, of which almost 2,000 are new to this edition.

The news is filled with talk of gangmasters, the congestion charge, sky marshals, and health tourism; pole dancing, bookcrossing, and speed dating are the things that entertain us; football matches can end in handbags, and bumsters are popular with middle youth and metrosexuals. And, of course, if we want to make something seem more interesting we sex it up.

The Concise also says croeso (welcome) to some Welsh words with bore da (good morning) and iechyd da (good health) joining thousands of words from all around the English-speaking world: dicky (car boot) and batchmate (classmate) from India, spinny (mad, crazy) from Canada, and bloviate (talk at length in an inflated or empty way) from America.

Features
new to this edition include a greatly increased number of boxed usage notes, offering help with tricky questions of English. There are also around a hundred special Word Histories, which trace the stories of some of the language's most interesting words. For example, did you know that cloud originally meant 'hill'? A gossip was a godfather or godmother, a lady was someone who made bread, and the original Tories were outlaws or robbers. Also (lexicographers love this one), the
words grammar and glamour are linked!

Appendices include
useful tables of factual information, a discussion of the language used in electronic communication, an explanation of the different levels of English, and a guide to good English.

The first edition of the Concise
was edited by the brothers Henry Watson and Frank George Fowler. On its publication in June 1911 it was praised as 'a marvel of condensation' and 'a miracle of condensed scholarship'. Revolutionary in its concentration on current English and in its copious use of illustrative examples, the dictionary was an immediate success.

Its compilation was indeed an Olympian achievement:
the brothers drew on the great Oxford English Dictionary, but this was then still incomplete, and they had to edit the S-Z part of the alphabet without it. If you would like to know more about the Fowlers, read The Warden of English by Jenny McMorris (OUP, 2001).

It is interesting today
to look back at that first edition of the Concise and compare it with the new edition. The cover, bedecked with art nouveau swirls, proclaims 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary, adapted by H. W. and F. G. Fowler from The Oxford Dictionary'. The book contained 1,064 pages, whereas the new edition has 1,728 pages and is a much larger volume.

The words covered
and the way they are described, have of course changed along with the language and the world. COD1 had no entry for computer, radio, television, or cinema, although it did have cockyolly bird ('nursery phrase for a bird') and impaludism ('morbid state - found in dwellers in marshes'). It defined beverage as 'drinking-liquor', cancan as 'indecent dance', and neon as 'lately discovered atmospheric gas'. Gay meant 'full of or disposed to or indicating mirth; light-
hearted, sportive', while Lesbian was simply 'of Lesbos'.

The Fowler brothers
like all lexicographers until quite recently, had to rely largely on examples of usage that were derived from their own reading or sent in by others. Modern dictionaries are written and revised with the help of searchable databases containing millions of words of English. The compilers of the new Concise made use of larger amounts of evidence than ever before, calling upon the hundreds of millions of words of the Oxford English Corpus. This latest edition offers a
description of the language that is as accurate, up to date, and objective as possible, using resources that the editors of the first edition could only dream of.

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Oxford English Dictionaries Second Edition (Windows)


This CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world’s most important reference work for the English language. 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

Here is a summary of the main features of the new OED on CD-ROM:
• Quick search and easy-to-use navigation features
• Select how entries are displayed by turning pronunciations, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
• Advanced searching to allow full exploitation of the data. You can look for quotations by date, author or work, search pronunciations, find words which have come into English from a particular language, etc.
• Automatic cross-referencing: click on any word in any entry to find it in the Dictionary
• Automatic look-up feature enabling fast access to OED headwords from other applications.

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Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM

The comprehensive Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM provides hundreds of hours of speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice, all on a single disc.

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Oxford Collocations Dictionary 2nd Edition (2009)

The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English, now in a new edition with CD-ROM.
Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential for natural-sounding British and American English. Completely revised and extended, the new edition has over 250,000 collocations and over 75,000 examples.
Based on the English Corpus, a 2-billion word corpus that provides authoritative information on the most typical collocations.
Collocations only found in British or American English are clearly labelled.
Headwords printed in blue help you find the right word faster.
CD-ROM with the complete dictionary, a searchable index that makes it easy to find the collocation you are looking for, and practice exercises.

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Oxford Learners Thesaurus Pack - Ebook & CD

A learnerÐ*ІÐ*‚в„ўs thesaurus of over 15,000 words and expressions from written and spoken British and American English with CD-ROM. The learnerÐ*ІÐ*‚в„ўs thesaurus helps students distinguish between similar words and use them correctly.

The 2,000 entries: include between three and ten near synonyms, showing the differences between them in terms of meaning, grammar, register, collocations, and frequency; - help students understand the differences between familiar words, such as easy and simple, while learning expressions they may not know, such as effortless, painless, and smooth sailing; -provide over 4,000 notes to enable students to distinguish between very close synonyms, choose the best word for the context, and use it correctly; and - include over 2,000 opposites.

The Oxford Learners Thesaurus also includes:
- 16 study pages, focusing on specific topics with exam-style exercises;
- 8-page trainer on making the best use of the Thesaurus;
- a CD-ROM of the complete Oxford Learners Thesaurus A-Z pages and indexes, and over 200 practice exercises.

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Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM v.4.0

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the English Language, defining more than 500,000 words and tracing their usage through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources. The text on the CD-ROM comprises the full text of the OED 2nd Edition, plus the three Additions volumes, as well as 7,000 new entries from the OED's continuing research.

Most importantly, OED v4.0 on CD-ROM boasts superb search-and-retrieval software, designed specifically for the electronic version, enabling you to investigate the Dictionary in ways not possible with the print edition. Questions which might have taken years of patient research can now be answered in seconds.

Existing functionality retained from earlier versions includes:

-Installation to the hard drive, so the CD is not required during use of the Dictionary
-Options to customize the entry display and show or hide pronunciations, spellings, etymology, and quotation text
-Flexible full text search options, with search filters and an option to rank entries and search results alphabetically or by date

New to this version:

-Now compatible for Mac users as well as PC users
-Flash-base
-Smoother and faster performance providing instantaneous search results
-New word-wheel which supports incremental letter-by-letter browsing
-7000 new words and meanings

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