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In 1991, for the 20-volume OED2 (1989), the compact edition format was re-sized to one-third of original linear dimensions, a nine-up ("9-up") format requiring greater magnification, but allowing publication of a single-volume dictionary. It was accompanied by a magnifying glass as before and A User's Guide to the "Oxford English Dictionary", by Donna Lee Berg. [70] After these volumes were published, though, book club offers commonly continued to sell the two-volume 1971 Compact Edition. [26] 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.

An exhilarating aspect of a living language is that it continually changes. This means that no dictionary is ever really finished. After fifty years of work on the first iteration of the Dictionary, the editors must have found this exhausting to contemplate. Nevertheless, as soon as the original ten volumes were completed, the remaining two editors, Craigie, and Onions, began to compile a single-volume Supplement to the Dictionary, published in 1933. At the same time, the First Edition was re-issued in twelve volumes and the work was formally given its current title – the Oxford English Dictionary. a b Simpson, John (March 2000). "Preface to the Third Edition of the OED". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014 . Retrieved 1 June 2014. Robert Burchfield was hired in 1957 to edit the second supplement; [32] Charles Talbut Onions turned 84 that year but was still able to make some contributions as well. The work on the supplement was expected to take about seven years. [31] It actually took 29 years, by which time the new supplement (OEDS) had grown to four volumes, starting with A, H, O, and Sea. They were published in 1972, 1976, 1982, and 1986 respectively, bringing the complete dictionary to 16 volumes, or 17 counting the first supplement.a b c d e f g h Mugglestone, Lynda (2005). Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10699-2. Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series Volume 3 ( ISBN 978-0-19-860027-5): Contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world. Published by Clarendon Press. a b c "Preface to the Second Edition: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary: The New Oxford English Dictionary project". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1989. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008. The OED lists British headword spellings (e.g., labour, centre) with variants following ( labor, center, etc.). For the suffix more commonly spelt -ise in British English, OUP policy dictates a preference for the spelling -ize, e.g., realize vs. realise and globalization vs. globalisation. The rationale is etymological, in that the English suffix is mainly derived from the Greek suffix -ιζειν, ( -izein), or the Latin -izāre. [87] However, -ze is also sometimes treated as an Americanism insofar as the -ze suffix has crept into words where it did not originally belong, as with analyse (British English), which is spelt analyze in American English. [88] [89] Reception and criticism [ edit ]

Murray resisted the second demand: that if he could not meet schedule, he must hire a second, senior editor to work in parallel to him, outside his supervision, on words from elsewhere in the alphabet. Murray did not want to share the work, feeling that he would accelerate his work pace with experience. That turned out not to be so, and Philip Gell of the OUP forced the promotion of Murray's assistant Henry Bradley (hired by Murray in 1884), who worked independently in the British Museum in London beginning in 1888. In 1896, Bradley moved to Oxford University. [20] Winchester, Simon (2003), The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (hardcover), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860702-1Mugglestone, Lynda (2000). Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest. Oxford University Press. p.245. Holmgren, R.J. (21 December 2013). "v3.x under Macintosh OSX and Linux". Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on CD-ROM in a 16-, 32-, or 64-bit Windows environment. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014 . Retrieved 7 June 2014. Accordingly, it was recognized that work on a third edition would have to begin to rectify these problems. [48] The first attempt to produce a new edition came with the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, a new set of supplements to complement the OED2 with the intention of producing a third edition from them. [51] The previous supplements appeared in alphabetical instalments, whereas the new series had a full A–Z range of entries within each individual volume, with a complete alphabetical index at the end of all words revised so far, each listed with the volume number which contained the revised entry. [51] When the print version of the second edition was published in 1989, the response was enthusiastic. Author Anthony Burgess declared it "the greatest publishing event of the century", as quoted by the Los Angeles Times. [46] Time dubbed the book "a scholarly Everest", [41] and Richard Boston, writing for The Guardian, called it "one of the wonders of the world". [47] Additions series [ edit ] Italicized combinations are obvious from their parts (for example television aerial), unlike bold combinations. "Preface to the Second Edition: General explanations: Combinations". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1989. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008.

OED currently contains over 600,000 entries. [68] They update the OED on a quarterly basis to make up for its Third Edition revising their existing entries and adding new words and senses. [69] Formats [ edit ] Compact editions [ edit ]

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Gilliver, Peter; Marshall, Jeremy; Weiner, Edmund (2006), The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (hardcover), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861069-4 To expedite work on the Dictionary, a second editor was appointed to work alongside Murray. His name was Henry Bradley, and he was later joined by two other co-editors, William Craigie, and Charles Onions. Each of them worked on different sections of the alphabet with their own teams of assistants, eventually all working in what is now Oxford’s History of Science Museum, while Murray and his team continued toiling away in the Scriptorium. The four editors and their staff worked steadily, producing fascicle after fascicle, until finally, in April 1928, the last part was published to critical acclaim. 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... Harris, Roy (1982). "Review of RW Burchfield A Supplement to the OED Volume 3: O–Scz". TLS. 3: 935–936.

Wright, Joseph (1 February 1898). "The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years;". London [etc.]: H. Frowde; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons – via the Internet Archive. The 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] March 2008 Update". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008 . Retrieved 1 June 2014.Thereupon Furnivall became editor; he was enthusiastic and knowledgeable, but temperamentally ill-suited for the work. [16] :110 Many volunteer readers eventually lost interest in the project, as Furnivall failed to keep them motivated. Furthermore, many of the slips were misplaced. Rachman, Tom (27 January 2014). "Deadline 2037: The Making of the Next Oxford English Dictionary". The Irish Times . Retrieved 27 August 2019. a b c d "Dictionary Facts". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014 . Retrieved 1 June 2014.