![]() Next to this, any small pocket dictionary looks immeasurably diminished, though one can never have too many dictionaries. Or failing that due to the obvious file size issues, at least the 2 volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th ed., which I have in paper and supposedly has 1/3 of the entries in the full OED, as well as all words after 1700, and all words from Shakespeare or the KJV Bible that were pre-1700. This edition makes a very good dictionary for personal use for us mortals who cannot, on grounds of space or finance, justify the full OED, and those who do not have access to the full OED online. Here, the latter are present for most but not all words, and are condensed to scale. ![]() Compared to the full OED though, it is very concise - most notably missing are the more recherché entries, and the comprehensive etymologies and citations. That's Short-ER, not merely Short - a £100 dictionary in two volumes of almost 2000 pages each is not what most would consider an example of brevity. Here, the lat Goodread's categories of "read", "want to read", and "currently reading", though laughably inappropriate for so many books, nevertheless apply simultaneously to the Shorter Oxford. Goodread's categories of "read", "want to read", and "currently reading", though laughably inappropriate for so many books, nevertheless apply simultaneously to the Shorter Oxford.
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