NEW OXFORD DICTIONARY
LARGEST IN THE WORLD SUPPLEMENT CONCLUDED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 21. (Received Sept. 22, at 5.5 p.m.) The new Oxford English Dictionary, which has been in process of publication since 1884, is the largest dictionary in the world. It has now been brought up to date by the publication of a supplement. The last volume of the main body of the distionary was published in 1928, but in the work which represents the complete scientific dictionary of the English language a supplement was essential to cover words introduced into the language as a result of modern developments in many fields. Flying, motoring, wireless, and kinematography are obvious examples of such developments, which were practically unknown when the first letters of the alphabet were dealt with in the dictionary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 11
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132NEW OXFORD DICTIONARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 11
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