Of the 65, 000 words in the English dictionary, most English-speakers will only use 5-6, 000, Sheedy said.
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It also contains a Chinese-English dictionary and can recognize Chinese characters written with a stylus.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this sense of peculiarity as "the ordinary current objective sense".
My Oxford English Dictionary, however, does define nuisance as "an annoyance" or "an obnoxious practice".
Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
He added that the Oxford English Dictionary was wrong to say it could be pronounced both ways.
By the time the Oxford English Dictionary was completed, in 1928, the number had burgeoned to 414, 825.
The result, due out Aug. 4 in print and electronic forms, is the Encarta World English Dictionary.
In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excited approval.
The Oxford English Dictionary even recently added OMG to its venerable dictionary.
However you come down on these questions, the Encarta World English Dictionary is a lot of fun to browse.
Each includes 100, 000 main entries--half the number in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, but quite enough to get around in Australia.
In 2003 the word "blog" made it into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Clicktivism even made the Oxford English Dictionary towards the end of 2011.
"To be told in my own country I can't use a word in the English dictionary - it's nonsense, " said Mr McColghan.
The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, " by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
So that people avoid becoming the butt of jokes, Collins English Dictionary advises against using literally as an intensifier in formal or written contexts.
The Financial Times reports that Bill Gates, the head of Microsoft, has joined forces with Bloomsbury Publishing to produce the first international English dictionary.
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The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (as opposed to the Old Longer One) pegs the birth of the slang sometime between 1930 and 1969.
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It recently announced a multiproject deal with Microsoft that will include publishing the Encarta World English Dictionary as a book and CD-ROM in August.
There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
The 1802 Oxford English Dictionary defined Hamburg steak as salt beef.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, barista is a word of Italian origin that refers to a "person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar".
And the Oxford English Dictionary says both pronunciations are acceptable.
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".
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
Professor Nichols will continue to gather information on the language in an ongoing effort to preserve as much as possible - and is planning to publish an interim small Chechen-English dictionary in the summer.
Max Heller used a German-English dictionary and phrase book (on display) to write a letter in awkward English to a non-Jewish woman, Mary Mills, whom he had met years before at a Vienna dance.
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