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Article: Oxford's latest adds new meaning to the phrase 'look it up'.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2003
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Byline: BOB KEEFER The Register-Guard
THE NEW SHORTER Oxford English Dictionary, all two volumes and 3,984 pages of it, has been around the house for some time now since its publication late last year. Need any up-to-date definitions?
The dictionary has plenty - about 98,000 words defined in all - and endeavors to document the entire English language since the beginning of the 18th century. Among the 3,500 new terms you'll find discussed in the fifth edition - the fourth came out in 1993 - are Prozac, road rage, parallel universe, Taliban, line dancing, Naderism, DVD and chick lit. Very up to date, if not quite trendy.
The two-book set is ...