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It was chartered as one of the two privileged presses in 1634. "OUP" publishes many reference, professional, and academic works including the Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Dictionary.

OUP grew into the world's largest press after it received the rights to publish the King James Version of the Bible and it expanded beyond academic and learned printing. Today it publishes more than 4,500 new books a year and employs some 3,700 people worldwide.

It has lent its name to the Oxford comma.

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The Clarendon Enterprise (903 words)
	In 1978, Clarendon marked its 100th anniversary of its establishment, and the Press was there to document the celebration with Jeanice Weatherly as editor and Helen Woody, who had started in 1972 as a typesetter, as general manager.
	Helen Woody purchased The Clarendon Press, The Donley County Leader, and The Clarendon News from Eakin and Koch on August 1, 1978.
	The Clarendon Press adopted it on July 5, 1985, and it remains in use at the paper in 2003.

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