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Oxford English Dictionary Online
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the
evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide
to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words,
both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million
quotations from a wide range of international English language sources,
from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and
cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from
North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.
It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant
spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic
Alphabet.
The second edition of the OED is currently available online, and
is updated quarterly.