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2. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

3. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [ 1 ]

4. Robert Burchfield - Wikipedia

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   Robert William Burchfield CNZM, CBE (27 January 1923 – 5 July 2004) was a lexicographer, scholar, and writer, who edited the Oxford English Dictionary for thirty years to 1986, and was chief editor from 1971.

5. John Simpson (lexicographer) - Wikipedia

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   As Chief Editor, he led the first comprehensive revision of the OED and oversaw the introduction of its online version. [1] [2] Simpson is a member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a member of the Philological Society, where the idea of the Dictionary was first proposed in ...

6. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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   The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...

7. Oxford dictionary - Wikipedia

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   Edit; View history; Tools. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, an abridgement of the OED;