The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and represents work-in-progress from across the alphabetic range. Its contents include: 3,000 new words and senses; cumulative index of volumes 1 and 2; world coverage of English including the UK (exclusion order), North America (enrollee), and Australia (grummet), a wide variety of subjects, including science (superstring), literary theory (epiphanic), and sport (strokeless); all registers of English, including colloquial (everyplace) and slang (dweeb); full historical documentation, and dates of first appearance.
| ISBN: | 9780198612995 |
| Publication date: | 25th November 1993 |
| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series |
| Genres: |
Dictionaries |