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	Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aim of this Dictionary is to present in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology.
		New material was published in the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, two small volumes in 1993, and a third in 1997, bringing the dictionary to a total of 23 volumes.
		The early modern English prose of Sir Thomas Browne is the most frequently quoted source of neologisms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_English_Dictionary_on_Historical_Principles (4171 words)

	English Language - MSN Encarta
		English belongs to the Anglo-Frisian group within the western branch of the Germanic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
		It is approximately half Germanic (Old English and Scandinavian) and half Italic or Romance (French and Latin) and extensive, constant borrowing from every major language, especially from Latin, Greek, French, and the Scandinavian languages, and from numerous minor languages, accounts for the great number of words in the English vocabulary.
		English is said to have one of the most difficult spelling systems in the world.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564210/English_Language.html (878 words)

	Oxford English Dictionary - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The dictionary had no university connection originally; it was conceived in London as a project of the Philological Society, when Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall had become dissatisfied with the available dictionaries of English.
		But of course the English language continued to change, and by the time 20 years had passed, the outdatedness of the dictionary began to be bothersome.
		The most convenient choice for the dictionary user would be for the entire dictionary to be re-edited and retypeset, with each change included in its proper alphabetical place; but of course this would be most expensive, with perhaps 15 volumes to be produced.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/OED (3857 words)

	Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A third edition was published in 1944, reprinted in 1947, 1950, 1952, and, with an addendum of new entries, in 1955.
		The whole text was completely revised for the fourth edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of Lesley Brown.
		As a historical dictionary, it includes obsolete words if they are used by major authors and earlier meanings where they explain the development of a word.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shorter_Oxford_English_Dictionary (416 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - dictionary
		William Kenrick, who published a dictionary in 1773, was first to indicate pronunciation with diacritical marks (see accent) and to divide words according to their syllables.
		The dictionary of Thomas Sheridan (1721-88), an actor, was published in 1780, and the dictionary of John Walker (1732-1807), also an actor, in 1791.
		Another notable one-volume American dictionary was that by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784-1865), first published in 1830; an edition revised by the author appeared in 1860 and was the first to employ a group of expert consultants, use illustrations, and indicate synonyms in the text.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/dictiona.asp (1163 words)

	Oxford English Dictionary - Gurupedia
		Although the Oxford English Dictionary is a British institution, and perhaps most comprehensive with regard to British English, its policy is to attempt to record all known uses and variants of a word in all varieties of English, worldwide, past and present.
		English language continued to change, and by the time that 20 years had passed, the outdatedness of the dictionary began to be bothersome.
		New material with words throughout the alphabet has also been published in two Additions volumes in 1993, and a third in 1997, bringing the Oxford English Dictionary to a total of 23 volumes.
	www.gurupedia.com /o/ox/oxford_english_dictionary.htm (3382 words)

	Learn more about Oxford English Dictionary in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Oxford English Dictionary is generally regarded as the definitive dictionary of Modern English, especially British English.
		Although a British institution, the Oxford English Dictionary has a policy of attempting to record all the known uses and variants of a word in the varieties of world English, even obscure and outdated ones, hence also lists American variants of spelling or meanings e.g., center.
		The dictionary's third editor was William Craigie, the fourth one C.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/ox/oxford_english_dictionary.html (835 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The four major dialects recognized in Old English are Kentish, originally the dialect spoken by the Jutes; West Saxon, a branch of the dialect spoken by the Saxons; and Northumbrian and Mercian, subdivisions of the dialects spoken by the Angles.
		Old English was an inflected language characterized by strong and weak verbs; a dual number for pronouns (for example, a form for “we two” as well as “we”), two different declensions of adjectives, four declensions of nouns, and grammatical distinctions of gender.
		At the beginning of the Middle English period, which dates from the Norman Conquest of 1066, the language was still inflectional; at the end of the period the relationship between the elements of the sentence depended basically on word order.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=208563 (3582 words)

	(24) The development of the English language.
		The English language uses the Latin alphabet of 26 consonants and vowels.
		The further development of English literature happened with the publication of Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language” in 1755, and Robert Lowth’s grammar in 1761.
		As a result of that “A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,” edited by Sir James A.H. Murray and assisted by three more editors, Bradley, Charles Onions and Craigie, was published in 12 volumes along with its supplements from 1884 to 1928.
	encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/24_the_development_of.htm (1137 words)

	Benjamin, Supersize, Jihadist, and Spyware Are Among the Latest Additions to The Oxford English Dictionary
		NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- When the members of the Philological Society of London began the project they called A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles in 1857, they appealed to the English-speaking public for help in identifying the earliest usage of new words.
		On December 9, 2004 a new sense of the noun "Benjamin" became one of more than 2,000 new and revised entries that were added to the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.OED.com).
		Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-14-2004/0002631204&EDATE= (408 words)

	Oxford English Dictionary
		The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press.
		The OED is generally regarded as the definitive dictionary of Modern English, especially British English.
		Although a British institution, the OED has a policy of attempting to record all the known uses and variants of a word in the varieties of world English, even obscure and outdated one, hence also lists American variants of spelling or meanings e.g., recognize/recognise.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/oe/OED.html (629 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		As Dr Johnson understood — toiling on his own dictionary in the 18th century — to write one of the English language means facing “the boundless chaos of living speech”.
		The OED remains committed to its “historical principles”, to being the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium, and on English as it is spoken all over the world today.
		Second, it is no more the task of a modern dictionary to standardize and set rules for the use of a living and various language.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030607/asp/opinion/story_2043105.asp (553 words)

	dictionary. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The dictionary of Thomas Sheridan (1721–88), an actor, was published in 1780, and the dictionary of John Walker (1732–1807), also an actor, in 1791.
		Another notable one-volume American dictionary was that by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865), first published in 1830; an edition revised by the author appeared in 1860 and was the first to employ a group of expert consultants, use illustrations, and indicate synonyms in the text.
		This work of the Philological Society made possible the publication of the dictionary variously known as the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and Murray’s Dictionary (for Sir James A. Murray, 1837–1915, one of the editors).
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/dictiona.html (1112 words)

	Oxford English Dictionary - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ten-volume masterpiece, then called A New English Dictionary On Historical Principles, was completed in 1928.
		English is the only language that can boast a dictionary the size of an encyclopaedia.
		The OED I was the first dictionary compiled on historical principles, with examples from literature of first instance and any subsequent changes in sense, long before computers and concordancing made such searches easy.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/oxford-english-dictionary?sortcriterion=alphabeticalTitle&order=ascending (265 words)

	“Lawful standard”
		The earliest English dictionaries were not dictionaries at all in the modern sense, but rather lists of Latin words and their English equivalents or lists of "hard words" in English.
		This, my Lord, is my idea of an English dictionary, a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed, and its attainment facilitated; by which its purity may be preserved, its use ascertained, and its duration lengthened.
		At present, the entire dictionary is being updated for the first time since the work of the early editors, with a planned completion date for this third edition of 2010.
	wiz.cath.vt.edu /hel/helmod/dicty.html (1692 words)

	English Language Timeline
		The basis of the English language is found in ancient Sanskirt.
		Modern English was from 1500 to the present.
		When he was restored to the English throne he wanted to incorporate many of the French ways and give high positions to his Norman friends.
	www.angelfire.com /la2/timeline (683 words)

	Lynch, Getting an A on an English Paper -- Reference Books
		Where the OED differs from most dictionaries is that it's a historical dictionary — its original title, in fact, was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
		We learn from A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811), that "a valet or footman walking behind his master or mistress" was called a "fartcatcher," and you can chuckle for hours over some of the more creative terms for sexual acts and organs that appear in these volumes.
		Dictionaries — Includes the OED (above), as well as other dictionaries, both general and specialized (Chaucer Glossary, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, English Dialect Dictionary, African-American English, and so on).
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/EngPaper/reference.html (1516 words)

	Iranica.com - ENGLISH
		William Jones' most famous English translation was the @g@azal of H®a@fezá which he entitled "A Persian Song" and published twice, first in his Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) in conjunction with a prose translation, and a year later in his Poems Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages.
		Although the rhythm and diction of his translations was traditional, the quatrain rhyming AAXA was new to English, and its self-contained vignettes have an innovative concision.
		The translation is remarkable for a distinct narrative voice, lexically inventive, and smoothly assimilated to the rhythms of English prose.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8f4/v8f479.html (8722 words)

	Lynch, Getting an A on an English Paper -- Using the OED
		For English types, the OED — the standard abbreviation for the Oxford English Dictionary — is the king of the reference books.
		It's a historical dictionary — in fact, the original title was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
		Check, for instance, to see if a word has picked up new meanings around the time it's being used — that tells you that something important is going on in the culture of the time.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/EngPaper/oed.html (344 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition): Books: Lesley Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rather than revise and update that popular dictionary, the editors instead used the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989) as the basis for the text.
		For most of the English speaking world this is the dictionary that all high school and university students should own, the perfect answer for most of us who cannot afford or house the definitive Oxford English Dictionary.
		OK, it may be fairly costly but a dictionary this good is purchased once a lifetime and one this large will not be lost at school or be left at the bus stop.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198612710?v=glance (1817 words)

	Davidson College Library: Research Guide for ENG 310
		The first edition of the OED is still a useful resource; see A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, edited by A.H. Murray et al.
		Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang.
		For other works by Eric Partridge, see Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English (New York: Norton, 1995), shelved at Reference R 428 P275u, A Dictionary of the Underworld, British and American (London: Routledge, 1964), shelved at Reference R 427 P27di, and Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, 3rd.
	www.davidson.edu /library/refer/eng310.asp (1268 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98010204
		It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters.
		The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions.
		William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hc042/98010204.html (394 words)

	Legends - Ballads and Broadsides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The authoritative reference is An Introduction to the Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, 1875, by lexicographer James Augustus Henry Murray, general editor of the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the OED).
		Thomas Rymer, the ballad with textual history and commentary, from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads edited by Francis James Child, at Tam-Lin.org.
		Thomas Rhymer and the Queen of Elfland from English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /ballads/thomas.html (446 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Forum
		I have a complete (100 volumes) of "A new English Dictionary on Historical Principles", edited by Sir James A.H. Murray.
		Author is Murray, James A. Title is A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Oxford Clarendon Press 1928 Volume X: Second Half-V-Z. Cover slightly scuffed through use and binding a little torn.
		The modification might be a new introduction, added illustrations, new supplement, new format, and/or a revision of the text.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /forumresponse.asp?var=2075&var2=1 (371 words)

	Essential Research Tools in Early Literature\
		Annals of English Literature, a useful one-volume work arranged by date that tries to give the high points for each year: writer's birth and death, first publication dates, important historical/literary milestones, etc. Hard copy only.
		The English Poetry Database contains the full text of over 160,000 poems written in English by approximately 1,350 poets between the years 600 and 1900.
		English Verse Drama includes full-text editions of many medieval and Elizabethan works, including many of the cycle plays and morality plays as well as both the "A Text" and "B Text" of Marlowe's Dr.
	www.wright.edu /cola/Dept/eng/limouze/351_Bibliography.htm (468 words)

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