Oxford English Dictionary: Additions series, Volume 2

J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner

Clarendon Press, 1993 - English language - 384 pages

The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range.Its contents include: 3,000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including science (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport(strokeless); all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Oxford English Dictionary: Additions series, Volume 2; Oxford English Dictionary: Additions Series, J. A. Simpson
• Editors: J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0198612990, 9780198612995
• Length: 384 pages