Concise Oxford English Dictionary: plain edition

About this book

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is the most popular dictionary of its kind around the world and is noted for its clear concise definitions as well as its comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the vocabulary of the English-speaking world. This reissue of the revised edition brings the tenth edition completely up to date by the addition of hundreds of new words and meanings taken from Oxfords renowned data collection programme with a special focus on fast-changing areas of the language such as new technology e-commerce fashion and youth culture. In addition there is a new 40-page section including information on countries and nationalities alphabets and accents weights and measures and a games and puzzles wordfinder. There is also a new grammar guide and a section covering the language emerging through new technologies such as SMS.