No other dictionary, not even Samuel Johnson's famous one, had ever come close.

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Good news for fans of the New Oxford American: that's precisely the dictionary you get if you join Team Sony (though you can also go in for the good, old Oxford English Dictionary, or four other foreign language options, even).

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There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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"You can use your hands and body, and trust other people to understand you, but it's really exhausting not to have the full dictionary, " he says.

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Searches not only call up websites and images on the same page, but other references, such as Amazon's book search, the Internet Movie Database, and encyclopaedia and dictionary references.

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