The Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 2

Clarendon Press, 1989 - English language - 1078 pages

Presents 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. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectical usage and slang.

Contents

• and 17th cc when the word was becoming: 4
• WARNER Alb Eng Prose Add 1612 332: 85
• practical purposes the adverbial: 97
• e g in existence: 121
• wordum tæleð behindan spreceð fazere beforan: 130
• world ben byhynde of dette of love 1454 E E Wills 1882: 239
• forward Obs exc: 255
• ut biuoren ant bihinden c 1305 Judas Iscar 83 in E E P 109: 388
• behind?: 400
• 6: 555

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 2; The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198611862, 9780198611868
• Contributors: J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, Oxford University Press
• Edition: 2, reprint
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1989
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 1, 2010
• ISBN: 0198611862, 9780198611868
• Length: 1078 pages