#SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY BITT FULL#

This would be well worth several hundred dollars in Logos format, though I'd hope they could do it for $150 or so.

#SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY BITT FULL#

It includes a lot of Christian literature, so it would make a fascinating browse, and including it in a full library search would come up with some great quotes from certain individuals. I have also searched the 1997 edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary which has fewer citations but has some which are extra to those in the main. With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This dictionary is an abridgement officially authorized by the Delegates of the Oxford University Press of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

The thorougness of definitions is great, but the other wonderful thing about the complete OED is all the quotations of when a word was used in significant ways in the past. They are as close to my heart as they are to my desk. But if it were in Logos format I'd be assured it would be kept from obsolescence as long as I had it. as I type, I can pluck from my shelves the two volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. It is/was published by Oxford on CD-ROM a while back, but I never bought it because it was expensive and I figured it would be obsolete before you knew it. It would be awesome to have this resource in Logos format. I've had access to the online edition through my graduate school for years. My mother had the 2-volume complete but reduced print edition that had such tiny print you had to read it with a magnifying glass (which came with it in a little drawer). Encompassing all words current in general English from 1700 to the present day, this dictionary provides more than 500,000 definitions and more than 83,000. I've been a fan of the complete and unabridged Oxford English Dictionary since childhood. The Concise OED is nice, but it doesn't have all words I come across in it.

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