The New Oxford American Dictionary

The New Oxford American Dictionary | An excellent dictionary

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	The New Oxford American Dictionary Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 - 2096 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent !

Buying a dictionary is for me about getting enough words versus the size and weight of the book . With that in mind I find that I need a dictionary that has 250,000 words which this one has and with that comes a large heavy book . There just is no way to resolve this conflict . My only complaint is the photos of movie stars and presidents throughout. Why is this in there ? It will easily make the book dated in no time and more importantly seems to be sending a message that these are the really important people in the world.

An excellent dictionary

I really like this dictionary, it has great illustrations, all the words I look up are there (Unlike some other dictionaries I have had), and I like that it explains where the word came from in most cases. I highly recommend it.

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good choice

This is a good addition to my collection. I now own Oxford Rhyming Dictionary, Oxford's American Writers' Thesaurus, and now the New Oxford American Dictionary. I love its concise definitions and etymolgy.

Slightly disappointing, but still recommended

Disclaimer: I have not read this entire book ;-)

This is a great dictionary and if you want a _real_ dictionary that you can put on a PDA then the combined package is a terrific deal.

However... I bought this in large part for the software. I saw a version of this dictionary for MobiPocket at $60 that I wanted to use to look up words while reading eBooks. That seemed pretty steep. Then I found this. "Terrific", I thought.

Unfortunately, the software does _not_ integrate with MobiPocket as the $60 version presumably does.

Still, the software works well on its own, and I'm glad to have it. However... There are some entries missing from the electronic version, such as "Saturn". The definitions also suffer regular errors, such as the fact that alternative word forms are always run together with no space in between. In addition, the hyperlinks don't work. The application has also crashed once or twice and required a reboot of my device to get it to run again. (The device itself did not crash). The foregoing applies to Version 1.0 running on PocketPC 6.0.

The print dictionary is a little disappointing at first glance. It _does not_ include the word "euhemerism" and related words which _are_ included in my 1987 copy of "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Ed., Unabridged". Sure it's an oddball word. I don't buy a dictionary to look up words like "car" and "dog". So I won't be able to get rid of my old dictionary, but it did include every other oddball word I tried so I won't have to get too much exercize getting out of my chair and power-lifting another huge dictionary.

Despite the drawbacks, he book is of good quality (acid-free paper and all), contains a huge number of definitions, includes a PDA version far more complete than anything else I'm aware of, and the combination is a bargain at this price.

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A Great Dictionary

A very good dictionary. I really like the definitions. That said, it is very disappointing that such a high quality dictionary does not have an alphabetical index with cutouts for the index finger. Everytime you look a word up, you have to run through the alphabet and match it to the gray marks. If the dictionary were smaller, like novel size, then you could thumb through it, and it would not be that much of a burden. Had I known that, I would opted for another more user friendly dictionary.

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