This is a major new edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary,
published together with a fully up-to-date text of the dictionary on CD-ROM, containing
over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including 1,800 new words. It offers rich
vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic
terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful
notes on grammar and usage. The CD-ROM version of the dictionary offers full-text search
functionality, instant look-up from WindowsR documents, including email and the Internet,
high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, and interactive educational
word games, making it ideal for family use, as well as for homework and school use. New
to this edition is a fascinating Word Histories feature, telling the often bizarre stories
of the origins and development of hundreds of words. For example, did you know that the
word grammar is related to glamour, or that cockney used to mean a spoilt child?
This dictionary also contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies,
electronic English, and the registers of language, from formal to slang, plus a useful
Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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