The show switched to New Oxford Dictionary of English in series 43. After further inspection from Mark Nyman, the dictionary was found to not have any compound words in it, and was thus abandoned and the show reverted to the 9th edition.
This edition was to be the last Concise Oxford Dictionary to be used on Countdown, as contestant Helen Wrigglesworth declared ROADSIDE and it was declared illegal. The 10th edition was also issued as an electronic resource, as a computer optical disc. Its compilation had involved a re-analysis of much of the core vocabulary using the British National Corpus. Rather than being a direct revision of the 9th edition, it was based on the larger New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), which Pearsall had edited. 10th Edition (1999, revised 2001) became The Concise Oxford English Dictionary.1st Edition 100th Anniversary Edition (2011): The Concise Oxford Dictionary The 1911 First Edition includes the photocopied version of the 1st Edition dictionary, an introductory essay by renowned language expert David Crystal, a timeline of the chronology through 100 years of COED.9th Edition (1995) was edited by Della Thompson.Being computer-based, this edition changed the original structure to a large extent. 8th Edition (1990): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, first edited by H.In the 7th Edition, symbols were introduced to mark uses considered controversial or offensive. Sykes, catching up with the developments in the parent dictionary. 6th (1976) and 7th (1982) Editions were still called The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, but the subtitle now read based on the Oxford English dictionary and its supplements first edited by H.W.The title page still read The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English but the description read 'edited by H. McIntosh, who introduced the space-saving swung dash that stands for the headword. 4th (1951) and 5th (1964) Editions were revised by E.Fowler alone (his brother had died in 1918, although his name is still on the title page). 2nd Edition (1929): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English H.(They wrote the last section S–Z before the Oxford English Dictionary had reached that stage.) 1st Edition (1911): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, adapted by H.Publications English dictionaries The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English The most recent edition is the 12th, published in 2011. However, starting from the 10th edition, it is based on the Oxford Dictionary of English ( ODE) rather than the OED. It was started as a derivative of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED), although section S–Z had to be written before the Oxford English Dictionary reached that stage.
In addition to providing information for general use, it documents local variations such as United States and United Kingdom usage. It is available as an e-book for a variety of handheld device platforms. Its 12th edition, published in 2011, is used by both the United Nations (UN) and NATO as the current authority for spellings in documents in English for international use.
The latest edition contains over 240,000 entries and 1,728 pages ("concise" compared to the OED at over 21,000 pages). The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries.
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