Concise Oxford English Dictionary (11th edition)

RR 2005/32 Concise Oxford English Dictionary (11th edition) Edited by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson Oxford University Press Oxford 2004 xx + 1,708 pp. ISBN 0 19 860864 0 £20.00 $29.95

Keywords Dictionaries, English language

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510573710

The Oxford dictionaries have come a long way since the first edition of "COD", the Concise Oxford Dictionary of 1906, edited by the Fowler brothers. Now we have a large suite of Oxford dictionaries ranging from the 20-volume OED (currently undergoing its third edition) and its abridged edition, the two-volume Shorter (RR 2003/393), through the Oxford Dictionary of English ("Ideal for university and college"), this one, the Concise ("The most popular dictionary worldwide"), to the smaller Oxfords, the Pocket, the Little, and the Minidictionary, not forgetting related titles such as the Oxford Reference Dictionary (RR 2002/292) and the Oxford Guide to English. This new edition of COED draws on the newly revised edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English of 2003 (RR 2004/206) and the...