Oxford Dictionary of English
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Автор | | Г. М. Гукасьян, Г. А. Маховикова, В. В. Амосова |
Издатель | | Oxford University Press |
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Содержание:
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Описание:
For this second edition, now called simply the "Oxford Dictionary of English", the text has been completely revised, a major part of that revision being the addition of over 3,000 new words, senses, and phrases to ensure that the dictionary continues to be the most accurate and up-to-date description of the language available. The source for this new material has been the Oxford English Corpus, a database which provides an extensive picture of current English as an international language. In compiling this new edition we have been able to draw on a new 100 million word corpus incorporating real English of the 21 st century and made up of a balanced selection of texts from all subject fields, and have continued to monitor the language via the database of the Oxford Reading Programme, which now consists of around 77 million words. These databases have provided much of the evidence for around sixty new usage notes, covering points of grammar, spelling, usage, and pronunciation. We have...Похожие книги