Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Volume 3

By Michael Proffitt

Book Overview

This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia
(beardie), and the West Indies (zouk).
A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198600275
• ISBN13: 9780198600275
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"