OL8005212W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.44 Pages 1450 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0198612125 Urn:lcp:compacteditionof03robe:epub:f533ff23-72fe-49ba-bddb-484cf32dd96b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier compacteditionof03robe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7jq4x51b Invoice 1213 Isbn 019861117XĨ7014191 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL7401594M Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition Supplement V.3. By a process of photoreduction four pages from the original work appear on each page of the Compact edition & both versions include a magnifying glass that makes the reduced type easily readable.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:37:29.229643 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1139619 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid S0022 Donor American English is the greatest influence on English everywhere." Volume 3 of the Compact is available in its own jndividual slipcase or combined with Volumes 1-2 in one slipcase.
As editor Robert Burchfield explains it, "The center of gravity for the English language is no longer Britain. The wealth of Americanisms in the Supplement also reflects a new direction for the dictionary. Words like G-man, yuppie, user-friendly, test-tube baby & Zen Buddhism rub shoulders with the most recent additions to subjects like law, medicine & engineering. It includes business terms, "computerese," space-age terminology, colloquialisms & coinages by modern authors ranging from Wm Faulkner & Virginia Woolf to Gore Vidal & Erica Jong. The Supplement, called the "book of the century" by Phillip Howard in the London Times, contains all the new words that have come into use during the 20th century & includes as well the countless new meanings that have been applied to older words-over 69,000 entries altogether. So the vital addendum, which transforms the OED into an indispensable tool for the 80s, will be made available for the first time in this convenient format.
Now, with their completion in '86, all four volumes are being produced in a single micrographically reproduced volume to be called Volume 3 of the Compact OED. But the Compact did not contain the Supplements to the OED which have been appearing at regular intervals since '72. Newsweek hailed the achievement "a brilliant success," while the NY Times declared that the Compact was "something of a miracle.easier to work with than the original.an extraordinary bargain." Since then it has sold over 330,000 copies in the USA alone. In 1971 the Compact Oxford English Dictionary made publishing & printing history by ingeniously reducing the 13 volumes of the OED to two, without losing one word of the original.
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