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Brewer, Charlotte (12 February 2012). "OED Online and OED3". Examining the OED. Hertford College, University of Oxford . Retrieved 7 June 2014. Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM Version 4.0: Includes 500,000 words with 2.5 million source quotations, 7,000 new words and meanings. Includes Vocabulary from OED 2nd Edition and all 3 Additions volumes. Supports Windows 2000-7 and Mac OS X 10.4–10.5). Flash-based dictionary. Kangxi Dictionary". cultural-china.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013 . Retrieved 21 October 2013. a b Considine, John (1998). "Why do large historical dictionaries give so much pleasure to their owners and users?" (PDF). Proceedings of the 8th EURALEX International Congress: 579–587 . Retrieved 8 June 2014. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–VietnameseThe revision is expected roughly to double the dictionary in size. [4] [62] Apart from general updates to include information on new words and other changes in the language, the third edition brings many other improvements, including changes in formatting and stylistic conventions for easier reading and computerized searching, more etymological information, and a general change of focus away from individual words towards more general coverage of the language as a whole. [55] [63] While the original text drew its quotations mainly from literary sources such as novels, plays, and poetry, with additional material from newspapers and academic journals, the new edition will reference more kinds of material that were unavailable to the editors of previous editions, such as wills, inventories, account books, diaries, journals, and letters. [62] Kaufman, Leslie (28 November 2012). "Dictionary Dust-Up (Danchi Is Involved)". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 June 2014. John Simpson was the first chief editor of the OED3. He retired in 2013 and was replaced by Michael Proffitt, who is the eighth chief editor of the dictionary. [64]

a b c "Preface to the Second Edition: Introduction: Special features of the Second Edition". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1989. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008. Brewer, Charlotte (8 October 2019). "Oxford English Dictionary Research". Examining the OED. The project sets out to investigate the principles and practice behind the Oxford English Dictionary... Oxford University Press Databases available through EPIC". EPIC. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014 . Retrieved 7 June 2014. In the 1990’s, work began on a comprehensive revision of the OED. The aim was to create a completely updated text, with each entry being comprehensively reviewed in light of new documentary evidence and modern developments in scholarship, alongside the creation of new entries. This was the first time that material written by James Murray and his contemporaries had been edited since the First Edition was completed in 1928.The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online version has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The third edition of the dictionary is expected to be available exclusively in electronic form; the CEO of OUP has stated that it is unlikely that it will ever be printed. [1] [3] [4] Historical nature [ edit ] The Oxford English Dictionary has been the last word on the English language for over a century, yet we count on its wisdom and authority without necessarily considering how it came to be. What is the history of the OED? With hundreds of staff, thousands of contributors, and more than 500,000 defined words at its core, the story of this extraordinary living document is revealed below. How it began Founding editor James Murray was also reluctant to include scientific terms, despite their documentation, unless he felt that they were widely enough used. In 1902, he declined to add the word radium to the dictionary. [105] See also [ edit ]