Compact Editions of the Oxford English Dictionary | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-07

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00:01:52 1 Historical nature
00:03:21 2 Entries and relative size
00:05:54 3 History
00:06:02 3.1 Origins
00:08:08 3.2 Early editors
00:11:28 3.3 Oxford editors
00:17:39 3.4 Completion of first edition and first supplement
00:18:36 3.5 Second supplement
00:21:32 3.6 Revised American edition
00:21:57 3.7 Second edition
00:26:40 3.8 Additions series
00:29:43 3.9 Third edition
00:32:44 3.9.1 New entries and words
00:33:57 4 Formats
00:34:06 4.1 Compact editions
00:36:10 4.2 Electronic versions
00:40:16 5 Relationship to other Oxford dictionaries
00:42:38 6 Spelling
00:43:30 7 Reception
00:47:18 8 See also



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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press. It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world. The second edition, comprising 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, was published in 1989.
Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was only in 1884 that it began to be published in unbound fascicles as work continued on the project, under the name of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society. In 1895, the title The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes. In 1933, the title The Oxford English Dictionary fully replaced the former name in all occurrences in its reprinting as twelve volumes with a one-volume supplement. More supplements came over the years until 1989, when the second edition was published. Since 2000, compilation of a third edition of the dictionary has been underway, approximately half of which is complete.The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online version has been available since 2000, and as of April 2014 was receiving over two million hits per month. The third edition of the dictionary will most likely only appear in electronic form: the Chief Executive of Oxford University Press has stated that it is unlikely that it will ever be printed.