The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the Oxford Dictionary , the Great Oxford Dictionary are one of the most famous and large [1] academic English dictionaries of the Oxford University Press publishing house. The 2005 edition contains about 301,100 articles (350 million printed characters).
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The dictionary is known under the colloquial informal name “Murray’s Dictionary” (by the name of the first editor-in-chief, James Murray ).
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Development History
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| 1888 | A | A new ed | Vol. one |
| 1893 | C | NED | Vol. 2 |
| 1897 | D | NED | Vol. 3 |
| 1900 | F | NED | Vol. four |
| 1901 | H | NED | Vol. five |
| 1908 | L | NED | Vol. 6 |
| 1909 | O | NED | Vol. 7 |
| 1914 | Q | NED | Vol. eight |
| 1919 | Si | NED | Vol. 9/1 |
| 1919 | Su | NED | Vol. 9/2 |
| 1926 | Ti | NED | Vol. 10/1 |
| 1928 | V | NED | Vol. 10/2 |
| 1928 | all | NED | 12 vols. |
| 1933 | & sup. | Oxford ed | 13 vols. |
| 1972 | A | OED Sup. | Vol. one |
| 1976 | H | OED Sup. | Vol. 2 |
| 1982 | O | OED Sup. | Vol. 3 |
| 1986 | Sea | OED Sup. | Vol. four |
| 1989 | all | OED 2nd Ed. | 20 vols. |
| 1993 | all | OED Add. Ser. | Vols. 1-2 |
| 1997 | all | OED Add. Ser. | Vol. 3 |
The dictionary was conceived by the London Philological Society back in 1857. The draft of the future dictionary was formulated in 1859, when a detailed proposal was published on the publication of a new English dictionary. James Murray was appointed editor. Henry Bradley and William Craigie also worked on the dictionary.
On February 1, 1884, the first edition began, entitled “The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles” ( NED ). [1] Since 1895, a parallel title has appeared on the covers - “Oxford English Dictionary” ( English “Oxford English Dictionary” ). [1] The publication contained 10 volumes and was published until 1928. During this period, in 1919, John Ronald Roel Tolkien joined the project as an assistant to the lexicographer .
In 1933, the dictionary was reprinted and contained 12 volumes with a single-volume addition. Then he gained his current name - "Oxford English Dictionary". [one]
With the release in 1972 of 1 volume, a 3-volume additional edition of the dictionary began. [1] Between 1972 and 1986, 4 more volumes were added.
In 1989, the second edition of the dictionary was published in 20 volumes.
There is also a microprint in 2 volumes of the “Compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary”, and abridged versions: “Shorter Oxford English dictionary” and “Concise Oxford dictionary of current English” are systematically reprinted. [one]
A fully revised edition is being prepared for release in 2017. The publication will only be in electronic form (that is, the paper version will not be released). Currently, 80 specialists are working on the publication, which, according to data from March 24, 2011, reached the word Ryvita .
Contents
The vocabulary of the Oxford Dictionary includes all words that are or have been in the English literary and spoken languages since 1150. It gives their detailed etymological , semantic , spelling , orthoepic and grammatical descriptions. Based on examples and excerpts , an attempt is made to trace changes in the meaning, spelling, pronunciation and use of each word in different historical intervals. The first edition of the dictionary contains about 500 thousand words and about 2 million citations from 20 thousand works of more than 5 thousand authors. [one]
Editions
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, edited by John Simpson and Edmund Weiner, Clarendon Press, 1989, twenty volumes, hardcover, ISBN 0-19-861186-2
In art
- One of the pages in the history of the dictionary is the 2019 feature film The Games of the Minds , in which Mel Gibson played the role of Murray.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gudovshchikova I.V. Oxford Dictionary - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .