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Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English
Author: Frank R. Abate


Based on a vast database of over two hundred million words, the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English offers superb coverage of American English. Oxford's U.S. Dictionaries Program has taken a state-of-the-art approach to the design of reference works, focusing on the words users most commonly encounter, and omitting those rarely used. The result is the most reliable word resource available, one that is more practical and less expensive, perfect for students or the general reader. Its features include: DT Grammar, Style, and Usage Notes that give guidance on correct English DT Hundreds of Word Histories that provide a fascinating background to our language DT 225 illustrations, commissioned by Oxford's U.S. Dictionaries Program, that add important visual information to complement the definitions DT Reference appendices with information on weights and measures, metric conversions, chemical elements, countries of the world, U.S. states and presidents, and much more Affordable, durable, easy to read and completely up to date, this is the finest dictionary of its size available. date, this is the finest dictionary of its size available. [On Cover] DT 180,000 concise definitions and entries DT 3,000 biographical and geographical entries

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Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English (New Look for Oxford Dictionaries)
Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English (New Look for Oxford Dictionaries)
Author: Frank R. Abate
Paperback
7/18/2002
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN10 : 0195150821
ISBN13 : 9780195150827

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