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This book aims to provide a one-stop reference with comprehensive and helpful advice on a very broad range of issues encountered when writing or editing, either professionally or whilst studying. A completely expanded, revised, and updated version of the first edition, it presents the house style of Oxford University Press, drawing on the experience of the Dictionary Department and the Presss in-house academic desk editors. It gives clear advice on common spelling difficulties, names ofpeople and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, and broad aspects of usage, including capitalization and punctuation.

This updated edition of a standard reference work offers an expanded text, with a range of new slang and technical terms, notes on grammar, and help with common mistakes and mispronunciations. The dictionary also has a misspelling guide to help locate tricky spellings.

It's small and practical, easy to work with, yet packed with what you want to know! This compact dictionary contains over 200,000 entries, with up-to-the-minute usage on all aspects of English -- including the very latest expressions. With its comprehensive labeling of specialist terms and colloquialisms, plus a guide to common misspellings, it's the best for handling your everyday language needs!

Diese gekürzte Ausgabe des Oxford English Dictionary enthält 220.000 Einträge und veranschaulicht die Definitionen mit Zitaten, die genau zeigen, wie sich die Bedeutungen von Wörtern im Laufe der Jahrhunderte verändert haben. Jeder Eintrag bietet eine Fülle von Informationen, einschließlich Geschichte und Bedeutung, Aussprache, Etymologie, Definitionen, Varianten Schreibweisen, unregelmäßigen Beugungen, Zitaten, idiomatischen Ausdrücken und einem Nachweis über die Verwendung des Wortes.

Includes the history and etymology of thousands of words, 500,000 definitions, 25,250 variant spellings, and 83,000 illustrative quotations.