Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Arrived today worth every penny I m reading some pretty academic texts right now and words like desinence and meronym are there Troponymy regrettably was not but all to gather a rating of 10 And they use the IPA they give the etymologies and a hundred other things to make it your last stop We shall forgive them a bit of hyperbole when they say on the cover that the OED is the greates dictionary in any language In the fields of dictionaries of any kind and scientific publications of any kind every language faces some stiff German competition The Oxford Style Manual was bought because it was affordable but as I partly write for a living I may very well have to concoct something in English so I think it was not a bad choice Get them if you can Cheers PS No we don t have an Icelandic Amazon Everything I ve bought through Amazon has been from the USA the UK or Germany