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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, ... 1900: F and G: NED: Vol. 4 1901: H to K: NED: Vol. 5 1908: L ...

  3. William Chester Minor - Wikipedia

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    In July 1915, the Washington D.C. Sunday Star published a "sensationalized" story beginning with the line "American Murderer Helped Write Oxford Dictionary". [1] The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman ), by Simon Winchester , was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his ...

  4. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 1989 21,730 291,500 British: IPA: Random House Webster's: Random House: 1966 2nd (rev., ISBN 978-0375425998) 2002 2,256 315,000 American: Diacritical: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) Oxford University Press: 1933 6th (2 vol., ISBN ...

  5. Dictionary of National Biography - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

  6. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...

  7. List of 19th-century encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Universal Cyclopaedia and Dictionary edited by Charles Morris (1898) International Library of Reference (1899) Universal Reference Library (1900) Twentieth Century Encyclopedia link goes to vols. 2, 5 and 6 (1901) Imperial Reference Library (1901) Columbian Cyclopaedia (1899) Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary (1903)

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ]