Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 3 Hardback
Edited by Michael Proffitt
Part of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series series
Hardback
Description
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).
Please note, this volume is printed with a board cover, and does not include a dust jacket.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/07/1997
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- ISBN:9780198600275
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Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/07/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198600275
