Discover more on, Oxford's home for dictionaries and language referenceġ00 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today.Hundreds of usage notes on tricky vocabulary and grammar usage.Hundreds of new words and phrases, based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus.Over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering technical and scientific vocabulary as well as English from around the world.This edition included 400 new entries, including sexting, cyberbullying, gastric band, jeggings, retweet, and woot. Twelfth Edition (2011), the Concise Oxford English Dictionary was edited by Angus Stevenson and Maurice Waite.The Eleventh Edition is available on CD-ROM as an electronic e-Book for a variety of platforms. It was based on the Oxford Dictionary of English (second edition (2003), which Soanes and Stevenson had edited). Eleventh Edition (2004, revised 2006, 20), the Concise Oxford English Dictionary was edited by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson.
After further inspection from Mark Nyman, the dictionary was found to not have any compound words in it, and was thus abandoned and the show reverted to the 9th edition. The show switched to New Oxford Dictionary of English in series 43. This edition was to be the last Concise Oxford Dictionary to be used on Countdown, as contestant Helen Wrigglesworth declared ROADSIDEand it was declared illegal. The tenth edition was also issued as an electronic resource, as a computer optical disc. Its compilation had involved a re-analysis of much of the core vocabulary using the British National Corpus. Rather than being a direct revision of the ninth edition, it was based on the larger New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), which Pearsall had edited.
Third Edition: (1934) was revised by H.Fowler alone (his brother had died in 1918, although his name is still on the title page). Second Edition (1929): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English H.(They wrote the last section S–Z before the Oxford English Dictionary had reached that stage.) First Edition (1911): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, adapted by H.However, the eleventh edition was based on the Oxford Dictionary of English (also known as the NODE) rather than the OED. The most recent edition is the 12th edition, published in 2011. It was started as a derivative of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED), although section S–Z had to be written before the Oxford English Dictionary reached that stage.