The most recent edition of the Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names included a clutch of neo-names such as Bijou, Gobnat, Beige, Raven, Karma and Zenith.

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In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.

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It first entered the Collins English dictionary in 2005 with the definition "the tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders".

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In the Victorian age, it took a small army of volunteer readers twenty years to amass the 3.5 million citation slips illustrating the usage of all the words in the English vocabulary that were used to prepare the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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The first minister said the term as defined in the dictionary meant an "overbearing wielder of petty authority" and insisted it was used in public parlance a number of times.

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Mr Brown, who is married with two children, said that he always loved the original TV series and first became interested in the language after discovering there was a Klingon dictionary.

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The AHA also publishes a magazine called Zymurgy -- the first word in brewing and, ironically, the last word in the dictionary.

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First-time buyers will not find a more reliable, comprehensive or enjoyable dictionary of English.

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