Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
New and Complete Universal Self-Pronouncing Dictionary (1905) New Cosmopolitan Encyclopaedia (1906) National Encyclopedia of Reference (1912) The Nuttall Encyclopædia (1900) Standard American Book of Knowledge (1900) - a reissue of Standard Cyclopedia (1897) 20th Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1901) World's Book of Knowledge (1901)
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 ...
Oxford Dictionary of English: Oxford University Press: 1998 3rd (ISBN 0-19-957112-0) 2010 2,112 355,000 British: IPA: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 1989 21,730 291,500 British: IPA: Random House Webster's: Random House: 1966 2nd (rev., ISBN 978-0375425998) 2002 2,256 315,000 ...
The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922. The dictionary was completed by H. W. Fowler, Jessie Coulson, and C. T. Onions.An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the Oxford University Press took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
Printable version; In other projects ... Oxford Universal may refer to: Oxford Universal Dictionary, a dictionary; Sinclair Oxford ...
From 1904 to 1920, Wyld was Baines Professor of English Language and Philology at the University of Liverpool. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford , from 1920 until his death in 1945.
This page was last edited on 20 September 2004, at 17:36 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Upon publication of the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the university. He was knighted in 1936. He was knighted in 1936. His elder son by his first marriage was the composer Robin Milford (1903–1959); his younger son was the racket and hockey player David Milford (1905 ...