TY - BOOK AU - Pearsall, Judy TI - Oxford dictionary of english SN - 0198613474 U1 - 420.030 PY - 2003/// CY - OXFORD PB - Oxford Universty Press N2 - "The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), like its abridged version, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is written on historical principles and traces the development of each word's meaning and form from its first appearance in English. Oxford's other English dictionaries, following the style of the ground-breaking New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), present words according to their use and frequency in modern English."--Jacket ER -