This historical approach, for which the Oxford English dictionaries are famous, makes some readers smell dust.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this sense of peculiarity as "the ordinary current objective sense".
My Oxford English Dictionary, however, does define nuisance as "an annoyance" or "an obnoxious practice".
Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
He added that the Oxford English Dictionary was wrong to say it could be pronounced both ways.
By the time the Oxford English Dictionary was completed, in 1928, the number had burgeoned to 414, 825.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excited approval.
Both the Oxford English and the Collins define meres and tarns as lakes.
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The Oxford English Dictionary even recently added OMG to its venerable dictionary.
Each includes 100, 000 main entries--half the number in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, but quite enough to get around in Australia.
In 2003 the word "blog" made it into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Clicktivism even made the Oxford English Dictionary towards the end of 2011.
The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, " by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (as opposed to the Old Longer One) pegs the birth of the slang sometime between 1930 and 1969.
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There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The 1802 Oxford English Dictionary defined Hamburg steak as salt beef.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, barista is a word of Italian origin that refers to a "person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar".
And the Oxford English Dictionary says both pronunciations are acceptable.
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
The Oxford English Dictionary documents how the word "rabid" found similar purchase in English during the 17th century, as a term of illness but also as a wrenching state of agitation: "rabid with anguish" (1621), "rabid Griefe" (1646).
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In the Victorian age, it took a small army of volunteer readers twenty years to amass the 3.5 million citation slips illustrating the usage of all the words in the English vocabulary that were used to prepare the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Toby Rundle, from Milton, was studying Classics and English at Oxford University's Lady Margaret Hall when he died.
Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
For this he has been taken to task by Terry Eagleton, a professor of English at Oxford University and a leading exponent of politically committed criticism.
And Dr George Garnett, a history lecturer at Oxford University, specialising in English history in the 10-13th Centuries, says that while Magna Carta has proved to be enormously influential, that wasn't its original intention.
His formal education was at an English private school and Oxford, and he became a radical while working as a student among London's poor, picking hops in Kent.
And not just British English: spelling aside, the Shorter Oxford is thoroughly American as well.
In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.
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