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Volume 1
John Simpson, Edmund Weiner
£40.00
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Volume 2
John Simpson, Edmund Weiner
£35.00
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
Volume 3
Edited by M. Proffitt General Editor: John Simpson
424 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-860027-5
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Hardback
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24 July 1997
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- From Quorn to bully pulpit - 3,000 new words and phrases
Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (council tax, Estuary English), North America (affluential, bully pulpit, road-kill), the Caribbean (merino, zouk), Australia (amphometer, beardie), New Zealand (Labour weekend, mokopuna), India (garam masala), the Pacific (arjun), and South Africa (kalkoentjie, Malanite). Subjects covered include politics (linkage, Citizen's Charter), education (National Curriculum), cookery (ciabatta, Quorn), broadcasting (bi-media), literary criticism (post-structuralism),
music (bhangra, swingbeat, techno), and sport (basho, clean and jerk, matchup). This volume also features a higher number of entries in scientific fields, including medicine (lentivirus), genetics (antisense), ecology (biodiversity), astronomy (dark matter), chemistry (Orimulsion), and computing (freeware, cyberspace).Readership: Owners of the OED.
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