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Winchester, Simon (1998), "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary", Bulletin of the World Health Organization (hardcover), HarperCollins, 79 (6): 579, ISBN 978-0-06-017596-2, PMC 2566457 Boston, Richard (24 March 1989). "The new, 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary: Oxford's A to Z – The origin". The Guardian. London. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography are indeed yet mighty, but not quite what they used to be, whereas the OED has gone from strength to strength and is one of the wonders of the world.

Willinsky, John (1995), Empire of Words: The Reign of the Oxford English Dictionary (hardcover), Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-03719-6 Collecting the Evidence". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014 . Retrieved 8 June 2014. Winchester, Simon (27 May 2007). "History of the Oxford English Dictionary". TVOntario (Podcast). Big Ideas. Archived from the original (podcast) on 16 February 2008.The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world. [2] Looking Forward to an Oxford English Dictionary API". Webometric Thoughts. 21 August 2009. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014 . Retrieved 7 June 2014.

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Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM Version 4.0: Includes 500,000 words with 2.5 million source quotations, 7,000 new words and meanings. Includes Vocabulary from OED 2nd Edition and all 3 Additions volumes. Supports Windows 2000-7 and Mac OS X 10.4–10.5). Flash-based dictionary.

Preface to the Second Edition: Introduction: The translation of the phonetic system". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1989. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008. Cowlishaw, Mike F. (1987). "LEXX – A Programmable Structured Editor" (PDF). IBM Journal of Research and Development. 31 (1): 73–80. doi: 10.1147/rd.311.0073. S2CID 207600673. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2020. The Oxford English Dictionary". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011 . Retrieved 26 May 2015. OED currently contains over 600,000 entries. [68] They update the OED on a quarterly basis to make up for its Third Edition revising their existing entries and adding new words and senses. [69] Formats [ edit ] Compact editions [ edit ]

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Founding editor James Murray was also reluctant to include scientific terms, despite their documentation, unless he felt that they were widely enough used. In 1902, he declined to add the word radium to the dictionary. [105] See also [ edit ] Ogilvie, Sarah (2012). Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02183-9. The production of the new edition exploits computer technology, particularly since the inauguration in June 2005 of the "Perfect All-Singing All-Dancing Editorial and Notation Application", or "Pasadena". With this XML-based system, lexicographers can spend less effort on presentation issues such as the numbering of definitions. This system has also simplified the use of the quotations database, and enabled staff in New York to work directly on the dictionary in the same way as their Oxford-based counterparts. [65] a b Simpson, John (31 January 2011). "The Making of the OED, 3rd ed". YouTube (video) . Retrieved 7 June 2014.

Oxford University Press (2017). "Key to symbols and other conventional entries". Oxford English Dictionary online . Retrieved 28 October 2017. Thompson, Liz (December 2005). "Pasadena: A Brand New System for the OED". Oxford English Dictionary News. Oxford University Press. p.4 . Retrieved 6 January 2014. For librarians: materials and guides for getting the most from your subscription can be found in our OED librarian resource centre. Oxford University Press Databases available through EPIC". EPIC. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014 . Retrieved 7 June 2014.

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a b "Preface to the Second Edition: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 1957–1986". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1989. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008. Biographical information on individuals connected with the First Edition of the OED and the 1933 Supplement