opfpar.blogg.se - The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 Vols ... by Herbert Coleridge

Discover the biblical origins of VIRAGO in this post by Eleanor Maier, OED Executive Editor.

Learn more about the words added to the OED this quarter in our new words notes by OED Executive Editor, Craig Leyland.

The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes over 1,400 fully revised and updated entries, and over 700 new words, phrases, and senses appear for the first time, including deepfake, antigram, and groomzilla. We made history with Word of the Year in 2022, as we asked you to help us choose. Goblin mode is our 2022 Word of the Year, recognising our desire, particularly as we emerged from the pandemic, to engage in 'unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy' behaviour that typically 'rejects social norms or expectations'. By a process of photoreduction four pages from the original work appear on each page of the Compact edition & both versions include a magnifying glass that makes the reduced type easily readable.Get your annual subscription for just £100/$100!

American English is the greatest influence on English everywhere." Volume 3 of the Compact is available in its own jndividual slipcase or combined with Volumes 1-2 in one slipcase. As editor Robert Burchfield explains it, "The center of gravity for the English language is no longer Britain. The wealth of Americanisms in the Supplement also reflects a new direction for the dictionary. Words like G-man, yuppie, user-friendly, test-tube baby & Zen Buddhism rub shoulders with the most recent additions to subjects like law, medicine & engineering. It includes business terms, "computerese," space-age terminology, colloquialisms & coinages by modern authors ranging from Wm Faulkner & Virginia Woolf to Gore Vidal & Erica Jong.

The Supplement, called the "book of the century" by Phillip Howard in the London Times, contains all the new words that have come into use during the 20th century & includes as well the countless new meanings that have been applied to older words-over 69,000 entries altogether. So the vital addendum, which transforms the OED into an indispensable tool for the 80s, will be made available for the first time in this convenient format. Now, with their completion in '86, all four volumes are being produced in a single micrographically reproduced volume to be called Volume 3 of the Compact OED.

But the Compact did not contain the Supplements to the OED which have been appearing at regular intervals since '72. Newsweek hailed the achievement "a brilliant success," while the NY Times declared that the Compact was "something of a miracle.easier to work with than the original.an extraordinary bargain." Since then it has sold over 330,000 copies in the USA alone. In 1971 the Compact Oxford English Dictionary made publishing & printing history by ingeniously reducing the 13 volumes of the OED to two, without losing one word of the original.