I kinda wish I had the larger-print, two volume set, though there is definitely something to be said for having it all in one book. Then later that evening we got in an insane, screaming, knock-down-drag-out fight, I don't remember about what, but certainly not OED-related. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2-Volume Set (With Supplement and Bibliography Included in Vol. The Compact is not an abridgement, but a direct photoreduction of the entire 20-volume set, with nine pages of the original on every nine-by-twelve page of the Compact (a magnifying glass comes with it). I obtained this, which, with supplements, is the most complete dictionary of the English language, as an introductory offer from The Book of the Month Club soon after matriculating at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

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Because finally I don't have one of those pesky jobby-jobs or any real responsibilities at all, now when I come across a word I don't know I have plenty of time to look it up in my Big Dictionary! As in the Second Edition, the Compact combines in one alphabetical sequence the sixteen volumes of the first OED and the four Supplements --plus an extra five thousand new words to bring this monumental dictionary completely up to date.I could get lost in the pages of a dictionary, skipping from one definition to another to see how long a chain I can make of words I didn't know. Anne McGee and Phyllis Creme, Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, University College London You may also be interested in.

This edition reproduces 4, 3 column pages on each page; the text is therefore very small and hard to read without the powerful magnifier included. He was subsequently closely involved in the preparation of the popular CD-ROM edition, published in 1992.

The new central section offers useful and accessible guidance on a wide range of student writing matters. The publishers, however, have been most charitable in adding a swell magnifing glass so you can actually read it. He is an active teacher at summer schools on the history of English and trains lexicographers in languages which have fewer literary and historical resources than English.