What is Dictionary ?
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Re: What is Dictionary ?
Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:44 pm
Do you know that if arranged end to end, the print for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary would be 262 kilometres
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:44 pm
The dictionary includes words from various countries, such as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, etc
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:44 pm
The first edition of the OED had 4,00,000 definitions and was first published in 1928, 71 years after the editors started working on it
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:44 pm
It has been reported that the sale of the OED has never been profitable for its publishers
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:45 pm
The online version of the dictionary has been available since the year 2000
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:45 pm
It has also been reported that one of the early members of the OED, William Chester Minor, was involved in a psychopathic murderer. William Chester Minor did much of the research for OED in a lunatic asylum
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:45 pm
OED is not the world's largest dictionary
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:45 pm
It also holds a Guinness World Record for containing over 600,000 words.
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Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:45 pm
OED is recognised as the ultimate authority on the (English) language
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