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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 6th Edition on CD-ROM The CD-ROM features the full text of the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, with more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, and coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean
Fully updated with 2,500 new words and meanings based on the ongoing research programme of Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus
Contains all the vocabulary current in general English from 1700 to the present day, with senses organized chronologically, as well as earlier major literary works, including Shakespeare, Milton's poetry, the Authorized Version of the Bible, and Spenser's Faerie Queene
Excellent coverage of all types of English encompassing slang, dialect words, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words
Contains over 80,000 quotations illustrating words in use throughout the centuries and thousands of newly discovered antedatings based on the ongoing research for the OED
Includes a never-before-published, introductory essay by eminent language commentator David Crystal on the History of English provides a stimulating and highly readable account of the development of the English language
Features a fully customizable interface, fast and intuitive quick search plus powerful advanced search capabilities, crossword and anagram solver, and automatic look-up from other applications
Runs on both Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems and is compatible with Vista; it can also be controlled solely from the keyboard
Supported operated systems: Microsoft® Windows® Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Mac OS X 10.4.x or later (PowerPC or Intel). Requires Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (Windows), or PowerPC® G3 500MHz, Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz, or faster processor (Mac), and 128MB of RAM
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