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Article: Heavy lettering; English language.(Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th ed.)(Book Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2003
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The new, two-volume "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" is reliable, comprehensive, easy to use--and enormous fun
EXHAUSTED by 24-hour newzak, anxious about asymmetrical warfare? Due for regime change after too many mochaccinos now those churidars don't fit? These are just four of roughly 3,500 new entries that dictionary-makers in Oxford have licensed as part of standard English. Browsing in their latest verbal treasurehouse is not only a welcome escape. At around seven pounds a volume, it's also good for those pecs. Churidars, by the way, are tight trousers, one of many Indian words that have found their way into English.
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