![]() ![]() When the members of the Philological Society of London decided, in 1857, that existing English language dictionaries were incomplete and deficient, and called for a complete re-examination of the language from Anglo-Saxon times onward, they knew they were embarking on an ambitious project. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.
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