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  2. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

  3. The Professor and the Madman (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was confined at ...

  4. Balderdash and Piffle - Wikipedia

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    6 July 2007. ( 2007-07-06) Balderdash and Piffle is a British television programme on BBC in which the writers of the Oxford English Dictionary asked the public for help in finding the origins and first known citations of a number of words and phrases. Presented by Victoria Coren, it was a companion to the dictionary's Wordhunt project.

  5. Concise Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Preceded by. 11th edition. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. The latest edition contains over 240,000 entries and 1,728 pages ("concise" compared to the OED at over 21,000 pages).

  6. Oxford History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...

  7. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of English ( ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English ( NODE ). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [ 1] The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is ...

  8. The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Wikipedia

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    The Surgeon of Crowthorne. The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States ...

  9. Oxford dictionary - Wikipedia

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    New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COD) Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English; Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) Oxford Russian Dictionary (ORD) Other works. Oxford Dictionaries (website) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) See also. Oxford University Press § Series and ...

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