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  2. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

  3. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [1]

  4. Oxford English Limited - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Limited was created by Daniel Baron-Cohen, Ken Hirschkop and Robin Gable, with support from Terry Eagleton at Wadham College. [1] It organised a programme of seminars, visiting speakers, conferences, debates, student questionnaires and campaigns in pursuit of its aims.

  5. Oxford English Corpus - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Corpus (OEC) is a text corpus of 21st-century English, used by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary and by Oxford University Press' language research programme. It is the largest corpus of its kind, containing nearly 2.1 billion words. [1]

  6. Herbert Coleridge - Wikipedia

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    Herbert "Herbie" Coleridge (7 October 1830 – 23 April 1861) was an English philologist, technically the first editor of what ultimately became the Oxford English Dictionary. He was a grandson of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge .

  7. List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Chief editors of the OED [1] [dead link ‍]; Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge: 1858–61: Preliminary work. Died in office. Frederick J. Furnivall

  8. James Murray (lexicographer) - Wikipedia

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    The blue plaque at 78 Banbury Road The erstwhile home of James Murray at 78 Banbury Road, Oxford: the blue plaque was installed in 2002. On 1 March 1879, a formal agreement was put in place to the effect that Murray was to edit a new English Dictionary, which would eventually become the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It was expected to take ...

  9. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.