The book in your hands is a uniqely user-friendly new type of dictioary. Gathered together in one volume you will find a treasure trove of practical information about our language. Whether you want to write or speak more clearly, ensure that you are using English correctly and sensitively, expand your vocabulary, understand technical terma or slang, play word games, or simply explore the wonderful richness of English for its own sake, everything you need is here.
Reader's Digest Great Dicitonary of the English is the result of more than four year's collaboration between Reader's Digest and Oxford University Press. Its text has been specially developed from the New Oxford Dictionary of English. So it is directly shapd by the evidence of how our language is acturally used today provided by the analysis of hundreds of millions of words of real English carried our for the New Oxford Dicitonary of English.
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