Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series

Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
ISBN-10
0198600275
ISBN-13
9780198600275
Category
English language
Pages
405
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
E. S. C. Weiner, J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt

Description

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).

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