The concise Oxford dictionary of current english

Publicado originalmente por Clarendon Press en 1911

The steady advance towards completion of the great Oxford English Dictionary has made it possible for the Delegates Of the Clarendon Press to authorize the preparation and issue of this book, whichin itsown province and on its own scale uses the materials and follows the methods by which the Oxford editors have revolutionized lexicography. The book is designed as a dictionary, and not as an encyclopaedia; thatis, the uses of words and phrases as such are its subject matter, and it is concerned with giving information about the things for which those words and phrases stand only so far as correct use of the words depends upon knowledge of the things.