Volume 3 (Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series) - Hardcover

 
9780198600275: Volume 3 (Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198600275 ISBN 13: 9780198600275
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (council tax, Estuary English), North America (affluential, bully pulpit, road-kill), the Caribbean (merino, zouk), Australia (amphometer, beardie), New Zealand (Labour weekend, mokopuna), India (garam masala), the Pacific (arjun), and South Africa (kalkoentjie, Malanite).

Subjects covered include politics (linkage, Citizen's Charter), education (National Curriculum), cookery (ciabatta, Quorn), broadcasting (bi-media), literary criticism (post-structuralism), music (bhangra, swingbeat, techno), and sport (basho, clean and jerk, matchup). This volume also features a higher number of entries in scientific fields, including medicine (lentivirus), genetics (antisense), ecology (biodiversity), astronomy (dark matter), chemistry (Orimulsion), and computing (freeware, cyberspace).

Please note, this volume is printed with a board cover, and does not include a dust jacket.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Proffitt is an Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition).

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198600275
ISBN 13 
9780198600275
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
424
Herausgeber
Proffitt M., Simpson John
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