#Shorter oxford english dictionary ipa full#

The full OED runs to ~16,000 pages in ~20 volumes which is overkill for all but professional philologists.

I was a tech writer and editor with an intense, lifelong interest in the language, its usage, mechanics and subtle nuances that shorter works are unable to provide. Not perfect, no, but well worth the price. If you're a dictionary junkie like me, you'll want to get this one.

#Shorter oxford english dictionary ipa plus#

This improves performance immensely, plus frees your CD drive for something else Microsoft Bookshelf 98 in my case. I also discovered a Very Cool Thing you can do, which is to copy the CD subdirectories to your hard disk - if you have the room - and access the app without needing the compact disc. Also, the screen presentation looks pretty good, so there's that. I'm glad to have this material readily to hand, so I can easily live with Oxford University Press's obvious lack of skill in the interface department. Grabbing single blocks of text is easy however. Also, no line breaks are preserved when you paste into a text editor, so plan on lots of reformatting if this is something you want to do often. Also, while I'm picking nits, there is no option to Select All (pretty standard with Win95 apps these days), so you have to mouse select the whole page if that's what you want. More irritating is not having better access to the quotation sources and authors.

#Shorter oxford english dictionary ipa windows#

The Windows menu does not include an option to tile the screen (just cascade), plus the app doesn't remember window positions. btw, if there are possible other forms of the word you've selected this way, a menu pops up to let you choose. I would have preferred a right-button mouse menu, but I'm glad to have the capability however it's implemented. If you double-click any word (to highlight it), then mouse on the open-book icon, the entry for that word will be called into the display window.

The previous review complained that headwords had to be entered manually, and I thought so too for about half an hour of playing with the none-too-intuitive interface. In addition, the work includes many new quotations from recent authors, a refreshed design, and a complete review of spelling forms and defining vocabulary, making it the most authoritative reference work available for both modern and historical English. The new edition, with a new introductory essay by language expert David Crystal on the History of English, includes 2,500 new words and senses, plus thousands of antedatings of existing words, drawing on the huge ongoing research project for the Oxford English Dictionary and the wealth of information on language in use provided by the Oxford English Corpus. The Sixth Edition showcases the best of the traditional strengths of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, while bringing it up to date in its scholarship and research, in the design and layout, and in its treatment of the changing face of English. Bound in quality Oxford-blue real leather and presented in a slipcase, the Deluxe Leather Bound Edition is the finest available version of the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.įor scholars and everyone with a serious interest in the English language, the Shorter is an excellent resource, providing a unique description of the historical development of the language together with excellent coverage of current English.