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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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If the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is available on the computer you are using, it is helpful to get used to using it for your writing.
In this review I report on my use of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on CD-ROM Version 2.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, of which I always have a copy close to hand when I'm working on Portable Poetry, defines "stuff" as "a substance or things or belongings of an indeterminate kind or a quality not needing to be specified.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines a psychosomatic illness as one that is caused or aggravated by mental stress.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a prevailing sense of wonder or mystery surrounding the mutual attraction in a love affair.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and The Shorter Oxford Dictionary are the traditional authorities, but there are excellent dictionaries published by Chambers, Longman, Collins, Cambridge and others.
In the UK Sir James Murray begins work on the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) in 1879 - he takes five years to reach ant.
With a staggering 17,000 entries, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to word origins available in paperback.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English offers the following definition of the term Secular.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Latest reviews: Ann Thompson (King's College London) reviews the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Version 2 for Windows on CD-ROM.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary will give you the date when a word was first used in a particular context and sometimes the country it's native to.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word "manuscript" in this way: a book, document, or the like, written by hand; a writing of any kind as distinguished from printed matter.
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