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Article: This dictionary has heaviosity.(What's New?)(Book review)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Heaviosity, impactful, retro-futurist, manbag, carbon-neutral, goody bag, blogroll, Foggy Bottom, splitsville, and smoosh are among the 2,500 new words (and their meanings) added to the Sixth Edition Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is a two-volume compendium of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. It attempts to include every word that has been in general use since 1700 right up to the present day. Words that were obsolete before 1700 are included if they appear in the writings of John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, or the Bible. (In all, there are 83,500 quotations from 7,000 different authors.)
Actually, the full title of the ...