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The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary thumb index edition (Hardcover) ( ISBN 0-19-861271-0/ ISBN 978-0-19-861271-1).The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) ( ISBN 978-0-19-861134-9).Includes 97,600 headwords, 25,250 variant spellings, 500,000 definitions, 87,400 illustrative quotations and 7,333 sources of quotations (including 5,519 individual authors). Headwords are traced back to their earliest usage. As a historical dictionary, it includes obsolete words if they are used by major authors and earlier meanings where they explain the development of a word. The book attempted to include all English words which had substantial currency after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser and the King James Version. The whole text was completely revised for the Fourth Edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The New SOED was prepared under the editorship of Lesley Brown 1980-1993 and was the first complete revision of the dictionary and should be considered a re-abridgement of the SOED and its supplements.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Guild Publishing edition, Hardcover) (ASIN B00HLDC3M2).The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Hardcover) ( ISBN 0-19-861126-9/ ISBN 978-0-19-861126-4).The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Third Edition, revised with addenda) (Hardcover) (ASIN B01N22ETM9): Includes addenda.Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover).The 1973 reprint contained an enlarged addenda with over seventy pages and a major revision of all the etymologies. The 1955 reprint contained an addendum of new entries.

The third edition was published in the United States under the name The Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principles in 1944 with reprints in 1947, 1950, 1952, and 1955.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on historical principles (Hardcover 2475 pages): Second edition 1 volume reprinted 1939.

The second edition appeared in 1936, contained about 3,000 revisions and additions, and was reprinted in 1939.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover): 1 volume.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary/The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Hardcover): 2 volumes.

It was reprinted in March and April of that year and again in 1934. The first edition was published in February 1933. Onions wrote that SOED was "to present in miniature all the features of the principal work" and to be "a quintessence of those vast materials" in the complete OED. Coulson (Jessie Coulson) ("W") under the direction of C. The remaining letters were completed by H. He laboured until his death in 1922, at which point he had completed "A" to "T", and "V". However, no action was taken until 1902, when the work was begun by William Little, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the Oxford University Press took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922.