A copy of the 2001 issue of the NODE

The Oxford Dictionary of English (formerly The New Oxford Dictionary of English, often abbreviated to NODE) is a single-volume English language dictionary first published in 1998 by the Oxford University Press. This dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary and should not be mistaken for a new or updated version of the OED. It is a completely new dictionary which strives to represent as faithfully as possible the current usage of English words. Image File history File links NewOED-2001-ed. ... Image File history File links NewOED-2001-ed. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The latest edition contains 355,000 words, phrases and definitions. It is at present the largest single-volume English-language dictionary published by Oxford.

First edition

The first editor, Judy Pearsall, claims it is based on modern understanding of language, as it derives from a corpus linguistics of contemporary used English. Some unorthodox choices made by the editors made this dictionary controversial amongst lexicographers, because the dictionary is descriptive rather than prescriptive.^{[citation needed]} For example, the editors did not advocate against split infinitives, and instead justify their use in some contexts. Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or real world text. ... A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ... In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the use of a language. ... A split infinitive is a grammatical construction in the English language where a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, occurs between the marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. ...

For a college-level dictionary, another unusual decision was to omit pronunciations for common, everyday words, contrary to the practice of most large dictionaries.^{[citation needed]}

Reissues

There were several reissues of the 'The New Oxford Dictionary of English', the first was in 1999, when it was published with thumbtabs, and subsequently, in 2001, when it was reissued with corrections and printed thumbtabs and contains over 2170 pages. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

Second edition

In 2003, a second edition, renamed the Oxford Dictionary of English, was edited by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. A revised second edition was published in August 2005; it included a free subscription to an online edition of the dictionary. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In Britain and many other English-speaking countries, electronic versions of the second edition are available for portable handhelds.

References

• • The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-860441-6
• Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-861347-4, ISBN 978-0-19-861347-3.
• Oxford Dictionary of English, Revised Edition, Oxford University Press, C. Soanes and A. Stevenson, ISBN 0-19-861057-2, ISBN 978-0-19-861057-1, Publication date: 11 August 2005, hard cover, 270 × 208 mm.

See also

• New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
• Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COED)

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of North American English by the American editors at the Oxford University Press. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. ... Concise Oxford English Dictionary (until 2002 officially entitled The Concise Oxford Dictionary, and widely known by the abbrevation COD) is probably the best-known of the smaller Oxford dictionaries. ...

External links

• Oxford University Press
• World Wide Words Reviews: New Oxford Dictionary of English by Michael Quinion, edited by Judy Pearsall, page created 15 August 1998; last updated 27 May 2000.