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The Oxford dictionaries have come a long way since the first edition of “COD”, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of 1906, edited by the Fowler brothers. Now we have a large suite of Oxford dictionaries ranging from the 20‐volume OED (currently undergoing its third edition) and its abridged edition, the two‐volume Shorter (RR 2003/393), through the Oxford Dictionary of English (“Ideal for university and college”), this one, the Concise (“The most popular dictionary worldwide”), to the smaller Oxfords, the Pocket, the Little, and the Minidictionary, not forgetting related titles such as the Oxford Reference Dictionary (RR...

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