A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary

摘要: The publication of the final volume OED Supplement marks completion a "work which will last longer and prove more influential than anything else published this half-century" (The Times London). It is piece great jigsaw that provides fullest possible treatment English language from middle twelfth century to 1980s. Within alphabetical range Se Z, contains all new words have come into use during twentieth includes as well countless meanings been applied older words. advent electronic age certainly reflected in volume. Words like SNOBOL, transputer, wysiwyg draw attention both wizardry green screen way computer wizards themselves embrace techniques modern word-formation. book abounds with vocabulary taken walks life many countries, presented full etymological apparatus for famous. Self-fulfilling prophecy, smokefall (from T.S. Eliot), software, Sputnik, test-tube baby, wind change, Yerkish (the sign chimpanzees), yogibogeybox James Joyce), Zen Buddhism--they're here, along 15,000 other phrases, whose historical origins an endless source delight word lovers throughout English-speaking world. estimated enter at rate 400 year; it constitute best record available constantly developing organism. Altogether about 62,750 are treated four volumes Supplement, described by Newsweek "like work depends...the present word, indispensable addendum what is, probability, greatest continuing scholarship has produced." About Author: Robert Burchfield, Chief Editor Oxford University Press Dictionaries Department Senior Research Fellow St. Peter's College, Oxford, also author Spoken Word Language. At last--the one century's scholarly undertakings