Questo articolo non può essere spedito presso l'indirizzo selezionato. Although, at two large, weighty volumes, it's strictly for "keeping on the shelf" - you can't carry it around with you! I was gifted the set by a family member for my birthday after I suggested that a dictionary would be a good gift as I currently read law. © 2010-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. o società affiliate. Onions wrote that SOED was "to present in miniature all the features of the principal work" and to be "a quintessence of those vast materials" in the complete OED. Iscriviti ad Amazon Prime: consegne senza costi aggiuntivi in 1 giorno su 2 milioni di prodotti e in 2-3 giorni su molti altri milioni, film e serie TV su Prime Video, incluse le serie Amazon Original, più di 2 milioni di brani e centinaia di playlist senza pubblicità con Prime Music, centinaia di eBook Kindle su Prime Reading, accesso anticipato alle Offerte Lampo di Amazon.it e spazio di archiviazione per le foto illimitato. Excellent quality, and with first-class presentation of information it really is a useful item for home or office. From the beginning, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was intended to be an abridgement of the full Oxford English Dictionary. The 1973 reprint contained an enlarged addenda with over seventy pages and a major revision of all the etymologies. Recensito nel Regno Unito il 30 aprile 2020. It was reprinted in March and April of that year and again in 1934. Visualizza tutte le applicazioni di lettura Kindle gratuite, Visualizza o modifica la cronologia di navigazione, Pubblicità definita in base agli interessi. The name Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was used to emphasize the link between this two-volume dictionary and the original twenty-volume OED.

The dictionary is also available as an electronic download plug-in for WordWeb for Windows[7] and for Mac OS X.[8]. Riprova. Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary, is just one-tenth of the size, and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700.
The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922. The dictionary included 80,000 quotations illustrating the use of words, thousands of newly discovered antedatings based on the continuing research for the OED, 2,500 new words and senses, thousands of antedatings of existing words from Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford English Corpus, many new quotations from then-recent authors, and a complete review of spelling forms and defining vocabulary. Si è verificato un problema durante il salvataggio delle preferenze relative ai cookie. Ti suggeriamo di riprovare più tardi.

Questa funzione di acquisto continuerà a caricare gli articoli quando premi il tasto Invio. Visualizza tutte le applicazioni di lettura Kindle gratuite, Visualizza o modifica la cronologia di navigazione, Pubblicità definita in base agli interessi. He laboured until his death in 1922, at which point he had completed "A" to "T", and "V". An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the Oxford University Press took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Riprova a effettuare la richiesta più tardi. The whole text was completely revised for the Fourth Edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Deluxe Edition, (Inglese) Copertina rigida – 20 settembre 2007, Visualizza tutti i formati e le edizioni. The 2-book set arrived today in perfect condition. Windows 7 was not included with the operating systems quoted on the back of the cd cover but it works fine. The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922. Until this year, I had no problem with this excellent program - because all my PCs had optical disc drives. Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary, is just one-tenth of the size, and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700.