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Concise Oxford English Dictionary: Thumb Edition (Dictionary)BUY FROM AMAZON.COM
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 (12 customer reviews)EDITORIAL REVIEWThis title includes the following features: Over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions covering current English throughout the English-speaking world; Completely up-to-date with hundreds of new words reflecting fast-moving changes in the language; Authoritative guidance on tricky areas of usage, with highlighted usage boxes; New 40-page appendices section includes lots of useful information - guide to good grammar, alphabets and accents, games and puzzles wordfinder, weights and measures, and text messaging glossary, etc.; Reissued in a new rebranded cover with title change replacing ISBNs: 0-19-860438-6 (plain) and 0-19-860436-X (thumb indexed) PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPub. Date: 18th October 2002 Catalog: Book Media: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 1728 Ean: 9780198606369 Isbn: 0198606362 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
i brought this dictionary last year and i found it really easy to look up the word........ kiss it and make it better dododododo sorry i got carried away as the t.v is on and an advert is on singing that song any way back to the reiview. My friend said that the dictionary was a sad book full of words like apple or table but recently i found the word [...] in it and i have no idea what it means cos im thick. why is it called a thumb index cos its not about thumbs is it.
I bought this dictionary for all my nieces and nephews this year. It's soooooooooo much better than any junky Webster's Collegiate dictionary. You can actually find the words you don't recognize.
A very good dictionary and CD-ROM. The International pronunciation guide is, however, incomprehesible and of no use. I couldn't get pronunciation from this dictionary. Another major shortcoming is that it does not provide hyphenation breads.
The CD-ROM version of this dictionary is sorely done. The application looks like a program made for Windows 3.1 and does not even have the functionality of one. The dict. does not give a clue on where to hypenate words, which is the reason for buying it. The pronunciation guide uses Greek letters to make the sounds with no help on the Greek itself. The definitions are sparse, usually only a few words of description, and many have none at all. Most of the text is about the word root or history in latin, greek etc. This product is a big screw not worth 50 cents.
the explanations are easy to understand. the dictionary is pretty comprehensive and covers over 240, 000 words. and it is easy to use too. SIMILAR ITEMS: |
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