Volume 3 (Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series) - Hardcover

 
9780198600275: Volume 3 (Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198600275 ISBN 13: 9780198600275
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1997

Synopsis

Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (council tax, Estuary English), North America (affluential, bully pulpit, road-kill), the Caribbean (merino, zouk), Australia (amphometer, beardie), New Zealand (Labour weekend, mokopuna), India (garam masala), the Pacific (arjun), and South Africa (kalkoentjie, Malanite).

Subjects covered include politics (linkage, Citizen's Charter), education (National Curriculum), cookery (ciabatta, Quorn), broadcasting (bi-media), literary criticism (post-structuralism), music (bhangra, swingbeat, techno), and sport (basho, clean and jerk, matchup). This volume also features a higher number of entries in scientific fields, including medicine (lentivirus), genetics (antisense), ecology (biodiversity), astronomy (dark matter), chemistry (Orimulsion), and computing (freeware, cyberspace).

Please note, this volume is printed with a board cover, and does not include a dust jacket.

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About the Author

Michael Proffitt is an Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition).

From the Back Cover

The third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198600275
ISBN 13 
9780198600275
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
424
Editor
Proffitt M., Simpson John