#Shorter oxford english dictionary bit full#
#Shorter oxford english dictionary bit plus#

Drawing on the evidence of the Oxford Reading Programme and our two- billion-word Oxford English Corpus, we removed something like 16,000 hyphens from the text of the Shorter.

The Oxford Dictionaries' web page warns: 'Lovers of the hyphen, look away now: it seems to be on the way out. The fate of the hyphen has been a hot topic with the arrival of the 6th edition.

#Shorter oxford english dictionary bit full#

(The dictionary isn't short at all – it's two volumes and more than 3700 pages, but I guess it's short when compared to the 20 volumes of the full Oxford English Dictionary.)

This year has seen an important five-yearly event with the publication of the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. So they allow lunch break, lunch-break, and lunchbreak, fairy tales, fairy-tales and fairytales. Later on in the book they say that 'your eye and your common sense must prevail' and 'it's a matter of personal fancy'. 'Hyphens are really tricky,' they wrote, 'and their usage is constantly changing, so use them with common sense.' I especially wanted to see what they had written about hyphens as these sometimes give trouble and I found some relaxed advice. I'm sure it will be useful for people who have punctuation queries. It's a lively little book – one of the chapters is headed 'the comma sutra'. It was on punctuation and was called Punc Rocks by Jenny Buxton and Susan Carter. * See words in context with example sentencesĪ mobile dictionary application from MobiSystems with content from Oxford University Press.A former student of mine sent me a book she had written to review. * History list to help you easily review the last visited words. * A 'Favorites' feature allows you to create your own categories and lists of words from the extensive library, which includes all cross-curriculum words The dictionary app includes a number of features which help you to grow your vocabulary further: * A wild card search function ('*' or '?') which can replace a letter or entire parts of a word. * A 'keyword' search for finding key words within compound words * A 'fuzzy filter' when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word The search also allows various search options as: It has been fully updated with 2,500 new words and meanings based on ongoing research at Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus.įeaturing autocomplete search to help you find words quickly by seeing search predictions that might be similar to the search terms you're typing. With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean.

#Shorter oxford english dictionary bit plus#

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700.