Oxford Dictionary of English

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Oxford Dictionary of English
A copy of the First Edition of NODE
Language	English
Release number	3
Genre	Dictionary
Published	1 August 2010
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	2112
ISBN	978-0199571123
Preceded by	Second Edition

The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003.^[1] The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usage of English words. The Revised Second Edition contains 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including biographical references and thousands of encyclopaedic entries. The Third Edition was published in August 2010, with some new words, including "vuvuzela".

It is currently the largest single-volume English-language dictionary published by Oxford University Press, but is much smaller than the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in multiple volumes.

Editorial principles and practices

The first editor, Judy Pearsall, wrote in the introduction that it is based on a modern understanding of language and is derived from a corpus of contemporary English usage. For example, the editors did not discourage split infinitives, but instead justified their use in some contexts. The first edition was based on bodies of texts such as the British National Corpus and the citation database of the Oxford Reading Programme. ^{[citation needed]}

The dictionary "views the language from the perspective that English is a world language", and includes coverage of English usage from the United States to the Caribbean and New Zealand. ^{[citation needed]}

Pronunciations of common, everyday words were omitted.^[2] The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used to present pronunciations, which are based on Received Pronunciation.^{[citation needed]}

The Second Edition added over 3,000 new words, senses and phrases drawn from the Oxford English Corpus.^[1]

The New Oxford American Dictionary is the American version of the Oxford Dictionary of English, with substantial editing and uses a diacritical respelling scheme rather than the IPA system.^{[citation needed]}

The third editions of both texts were published in 2010, and form the basis of the ongoing electronic versions of the dictionaries.^{[citation needed]} Both are edited by Angus Stevenson, who contributed to the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

The New Oxford Dictionary of English

First edition: 350,000 entries (including 12,000 encyclopaedic entries and 52,000 scientific and technical words). CD-ROM supports Windows 95/NT and above. CD-ROM produced by Versaware. CD-ROM includes links to Versaware.
- Hardcover+CD edition (ISBN 0-19-861263-X/ISBN 978-0-19-861263-6):
  - 1st? impression (1998-09-??)
- Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press paperback edition (新牛津英语辞典) (ISBN 7810800655/ISBN 978-7810800655)
  - 1st? impression (2000-01-01)
  - ?th impression (2001-8-2)
- CD edition (The New Oxford Dictionary Of English on CD-ROM) (ASIN B00004UCXV):
  - 1st? impression (2000-07-19)
- CD edition (The Pop-Up New Oxford Dictionary Of English): Includes iFinger version 2.0.
  - 1st? impression (2000-07-19)

New Oxford Dictionary of English

New edition
- Hardcover edition (ISBN 0-19-860441-6/ISBN 978-0-19-860441-9):
  - 1st? impression (2001-10-01)