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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary with over 600,000 words, phrases and definitions. $29.99 per year.

  1. Oxford Shorter English Dictionary v11.1.500 Premium Latest MRX Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary and includes all.
  2. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED.The sixth edition was published in August 2007.
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Release number
6
GenreDictionary
Published21 September 2007
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages3472
ISBN978-0199233243
Preceded byFifth Edition

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) is an English languagedictionary published by the Oxford University Press. Mac os catalina macbook air 2012. The SOED is a two-volume abridgement of the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

Print editions[edit]

Prequel[edit]

The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922. The dictionary was completed by H. W. Fowler, Jessie Coulson, and C. T. Onions. An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the Oxford University Press took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. However, no action was taken until 1902, when the work was begun by William Little, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He laboured until his death in 1922, at which point he had completed 'A' to 'T', and 'V'. The remaining letters were completed by H. W. Fowler ('U', 'X', 'Y', and 'Z') and Mrs. E. A. Coulson (Jessie Coulson) ('W') under the direction of C. T. Onions, who succeeded Little as editor. Onions wrote that SOED was 'to present in miniature all the features of the principal work' and to be 'a quintessence of those vast materials' in the complete OED.

First edition[edit]

The first edition was published in February 1933. It was reprinted in March and April of that year and again in 1934.

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary/The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Hardcover): 2 volumes.
  • ?th impression (1933-??-??)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover): 1 volume.
  • ?th impression (1959-??-??)

Second edition[edit]

The second edition appeared in 1936, contained about 3,000 revisions and additions, and was reprinted in 1939.

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on historical principles (Hardcover 2475 pages): Second edition 1 volume reprinted 1939.
Prepared by William Little, H. W.Fowler, J. Coulson
Revised and edited by C. T. Onions[1]

Third edition[edit]

The third edition was published in the United States under the name The Oxford Universal Dictionary in 1944 with reprints in 1947, 1950, 1952, and 1955. The 1955 reprint contained an addendum of new entries. The 1973 reprint contained an enlarged addenda with over seventy pages and a major revision of all the etymologies.

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
  • 1st? impression (1944-01-01)
  • The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Third Edition, revised with addenda) (Hardcover) (ASIN B01N22ETM9): Includes addenda.
  • ?th impression (1964-??-??)
  • ?th impression (1968-??-??)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-861106-4/ISBN978-0-19-861106-6): 1 volume.
  • 1st? impression (1970-??-??)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-861125-0/ISBN978-0-19-861125-7): 1 volume.
  • 1st? impression (1973-11-??)
  • The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-861126-9/ISBN978-0-19-861126-4)
  • ?th impression (1973-11-22)
  • ?th impression (1975-??-??)
  • The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Guild Publishing edition, Hardcover) (ASIN B00HLDC3M2)
  • ?th impression (1985-??-??)

Fourth edition[edit]

The New SOED was prepared under the editorship of Lesley Brown 1980-1993 and was the first complete revision of the dictionary and should be considered a re-abridgement of the SOED and its supplements. The whole text was completely revised for the Fourth Edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The book attempted to include all English words which had substantial currency after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser and the King James Version.[2] As a historical dictionary, it includes obsolete words if they are used by major authors and earlier meanings where they explain the development of a word. Headwords are traced back to their earliest usage. Includes 97,600 headwords, 25,250 variant spellings, 500,000 definitions, 87,400 illustrative quotations and 7,333 sources of quotations (including 5,519 individual authors).

  • The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) (ISBN978-0-19-861134-9)
  • ?th impression (1993-??-??)
  • The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary thumb index edition (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-861271-0/ISBN978-0-19-861271-1)
  • ?th impression (1993-10-14)
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
  • The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary luxury edition (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-863142-1)
  • ?th impression (1993-??-??)
  • The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary leather bound edition (ISBN0-19-195804-2)
  • ?th impression (1993-??-??)

Fifth edition[edit]

The fifth edition was published in 2002,[3] and contains more than half a million definitions, with 83,500 illustrative quotations from 7,000 authors. The name Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was used to emphasize the link between this two-volume dictionary and the original twenty-volume OED.

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Fifth Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-860457-2/ISBN978-0-19-860457-0)
  • ?th impression (2002-12-31)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM Version 2.0 (ISBN0-19-860613-3/ISBN978-0-19-860613-0):
  • ?th impression (2003-01-09)

Sixth edition[edit]

On 21 September 2007, the sixth edition appeared. The dictionary now included 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering global English-speaking regions and 2500 new words and meanings from Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford English Corpus. As previously, the vocabulary included entries in general English from 1700 to the present day and in earlier major literary works. The dictionary included 80,000 quotations illustrating the use of words, thousands of newly discovered antedatings based on the continuing research for the OED, 2,500 new words and senses, thousands of antedatings of existing words from Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford English Corpus, many new quotations from then-recent authors, and a complete review of spelling forms and defining vocabulary.

16,000 words lost their hyphen.[3] Angus Stevenson, the editor of the Shorter OED, stated the reason: 'People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for.' Its researchers reviewed a corpus of 2 billion words (in newspapers, books, web sites and blogs from 2000). Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.[4][5]

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Sixth Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-920687-2/ISBN978-0-19-920687-2)
  • ?th impression (2007-09-20)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Sixth Edition (Deluxe leather-bound Hardcover) (ISBN0-19-923325-X/ISBN978-0-19-923325-0)
  • ?th impression (2007-09-20)

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary App

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM Version 3.0 (ISBN0-19-923176-1/ISBN978-0-19-923176-8): Supports linking to word processors.
  • ?th impression (2007-09-13)
  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Deluxe edition (hardcover+CD-ROM) (ISBN0-19-920688-0/ISBN978-0-19-920688-9):
  • ?th impression (2007-09-20)

(The CD-ROM supports Windows 2000 or higher, Mac OS x 10.3.9 (PowerPC) or 10.4 or 10.5 (Intel) or higher).

Electronic versions[edit]

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is available on CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh.[6] Version 3.0 of that CD-ROM is copy-protected using SecuROM.

The dictionary is also available as an electronic download plug-in for WordWeb for Windows[7] and for Mac OS X.[8]

In addition to all of the contents of the traditional paper dictionary, the electronic versions include:

  • Audio pronunciations
  • Automatic look-up of words from other applications
  • Search functions
  • Crossword solver and anagram functions
  • Mac OS X version
  • Version 3.2 (OS X 10.9 64-bit, 2016-12-01)
  • Windows version: Published by MobiSystems, Inc.
  • Version 2.2.0.7 (Windows 8.1, 2015-??-??, 10-device installation)

References[edit]

  1. ^From personal copy
  2. ^Oxford University Press, The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 1993, Preface
  3. ^ abOxford University Press, The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 2007, Preface to the sixth edition
  4. ^Reuters (23 September 2007). 'Hyphens perish as English marches on'. MSNBC. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2007.
  5. ^Reuters, Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on (Retrieved 18 May 2008)
  6. ^Oxford University Press, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 6th Edition on CD-ROMArchived 11 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^WordWeb Software, Windows version Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
  8. ^WordWeb Software, Macintosh version Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
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External links[edit]

  • Oxford University Press page: 6th edition, Deluxe edition, CD-ROM 3.0
  • Microsoft Store page: 6th edition
  • iTunes page: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
  • WordWeb pages: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Windows)
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Now that the rewriting and editing process has started, it was high time for new dictionary. The dictionary that came with the laptop (MacBook Pro running OS 10.10.5) is good, but I wanted another one for a second opinion. I also wanted a reference dictionary to keep spellings and hyphenations consistent. Hyphenation is rapidly evolving: it’s no longer ice-cream but ice cream. And not bumble-bee but bumblebee. Hyphenation is like a double-breasted suit: out of fashion. As the stock dictionary is The New Oxford American Dictionary and I use British spellings, I was also looking for a specifically British dictionary. I thought about getting a physical dictionary, but if a suitable app could be found, that would be preferable. In the 90s and even 2000s the reference dictionaries were always physical. I was hoping that in the 2010s that has changed. It has: the search led to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

The app was downloaded from the Apple app store for $28.99 CAD. This is the sixth edition, version 2.4, Oxford copyright 2007, updated February 28, 2015. It must be licensed out to WordWebSoftware, who put it together and copyrighted the software part of it in 2011. I wonder why Oxford couldn’t do it in house?

Here’s the online blurb from the Apple App Store:

Description

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700.

With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean. It has been fully updated with 2,500 new words and meanings based on ongoing research at Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus.

This is a mobile dictionary with content from Oxford University Press and advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems.

SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words using a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface. The integrated search tools activate automatically the moment you start typing:
* Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
* Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
* An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ (‘*’ or ‘?’) to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
* Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results

LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary:
* ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library
* ‘Recent’ list to help you easily review looked-up words
* ‘Word of the day’ section to help expand your vocabulary every day

Sounds good! Now, you may be asking: why not just get the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary (OED)? Well, amazon.ca is selling the 20 volume set for $1447.04. That’s the 1989 edition. It must weigh a ton. And to get the latest (i.e. what’s happened between 1989 and 2015), you have to get all the supplemental volumes. No thanks. But doesn’t the OED come in an app? Not that I can find. There’s a cd-rom version for $295 USD (about $375 CAD). Most of the links to it from Oxford’s own site are broken. The cd-rom version apparently is designed for Macs with a PowerPC processor. Those are the Macs from 10+ years ago! Not about to drop $375 for a dictionary that probably won’t work and doesn’t appear to be supported. It surprises me that Oxford would even continue to sell such stone age software.

That’s sort of disappointing the unabridged OED isn’t available for download. I was prepared to pay up to $200 for it. You can subscribe to the online version for $295 USD a year. Macx youtube downloader not working. This seems like a ripoff. And you have to be online to use it, which is a turn off. At any rate, the Greater Victoria Public Library subscribes to it and you can access it FOR FREE by logging in with your library card. But you still have to be online and it would be a pain to login each time you wanted to look up a word. Imagine! Sheesh!

So, because the unabridged is too hard to access, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is the next best thing. At 600,000 words, the word-count is almost double the 350,000 words in the New Oxford American Dictionary, the dictionary which comes stock with my computer.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Versus Stock Dictionary

Let’s go head to head. Here’s works I’ve actually been using whilst writing Paying Melpomene’s Price.

Here’s aporia in the stock dictionary:

aporia |əˈpôrēə| noun an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory: the celebrated aporia whereby a Cretan declares all Cretans to be liars.• Rhetoric the expression of doubt.ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek, from aporos ‘impassable,’ from a- ‘without’ + poros ‘passage.’

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Pdf

And here’s the same word in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

aporia əˈpɔ:rɪə , əˈpɒrɪə noun. m16.

  • 1Rhetoric. The expression of doubt. m16.
  • 2 A doubtful matter, a perplexing difficulty. l19.
ORIGIN:Late Latin from Greek, from aporos impassable, from a- 10 + poros: see aporetic , -ia 1.
I almost find the stock dictionary better! One nice thing about the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary are the pronunciations: press on a button and it says the word out loud.
The next word is Capitoline. That word is not in the stock dictionary. But here’s the entry from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:
Capitoline kəˈpɪtəlʌɪn adjective designating or pertaining to the hill at Rome on which the Capitol stood ; of or pertaining to the Capitol: e17.
Let’s see how they deal with the proper name Melpomene. The stock dictionary has:
Melpomene |melˈpämənē| Greek & Roman Mythologythe Muse of tragedy.ORIGIN Greek, literally ‘singer.’
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t have an entry for Melpomene, only ‘melpomenish’:

melpomenish mɛlˈpɒmɪnɪʃ adjective. literary. rare. e19.

Tragic.

ORIGIN: from GreekMelpomenē (lit. ‘singer’) the Muse of tragedy + -ish 1.

Shouldn’t it have Melpomene if the melpomenish entry refers back to the name?

Surprising: the stock dictionary outperforms and the Shorter Oxford in some ways underperforms expectation. Macos virtualbox. It IS, however, nice to have both dictionaries. I’d make the same purchase again.

To sum up: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is a good buy at $28.99. The sound files are a big plus for pronunciations. 600,000 words is plenty. Besides proper names, haven’t run across any words it doesn’t have. The interface does the trick. If you’re looking for an authoritative dictionary with British spellings, this is your ticket until the unabridged OED becomes available for download.

Until next time, I’m Edwin Wong and I don’t like to be a spelling slob whilst Doing Melpomene’s Work.