TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown, Lesley;
TI  - The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary : On Historical Principles
SN  - 9780198611349
U1  - 423 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Oxford University Press
PB  - Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York
KW  - English language -- Dictionaries.
KW  - English language -- Etymology -- Dictionaries.
KW  - Dictionaries as Topic
N1  - Included Index
N2  - This abridged edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" contains 220,000 entries, and illustrates definitions with quotations which show precisely how the meanings of words have changed over the centuries. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, etymology, definitions, variant spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and a record of the word's use
ER  -