English dictionaries

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Oxford English Dictionary, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, New Oxford American Dictionary, A Dictionary of the English Language, Webster's Dictionary, Dictionary of American Regional English, Merriam-Webster, Jargon File, The Devil's Dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Lexicon Technicum, COBUILD, Lingoes, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Century Dictionary, Macquarie Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of English, Comparison of English dictionaries, Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Myanmar-English Dictionary, Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Gellish English dictionary, Chambers Dictionary, SOWPODS, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Roger's Profanisaurus, World Book Dictionary, Table Alphabeticall, The New World of English Words, Imperial Dictionary, Kenyon and Knott, Hobson-Jobson, Webster's New World Dictionary, CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Dictionary of American English, A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Australian Oxford Dictionary, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, Encarta Webster's Dictionary, Collaborative International Dictionary of English, Double-Tongued Dictionary, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Middle English Dictionary, Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Gazophylacium Anglicanum, A New English Dictionary, Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum, A Dictionary of Americanisms, GCIDE, Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary, Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Penguin English Dictionary, An English Expositor, Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable, Hanklyn-Janklin, The English Schoole-Master, Collins English Dictionary, Medulla Grammatice, Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Excerpt: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes (plus later supplements), and the second edition in twenty volumes. As of 24 March 2011), the editors had completed the third edition from M to Ryvita. With descriptions for approximately 600,000 words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the longest official dictionary; as stated by The Guinness Book of World Records. According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to 'key in' text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically. As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 italiciz...