The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITIONIN this edition the etymologies have been thoroughly revised, and for the most part rewritten, by G. W. S. Friedrichsen, to whom I express my sincere thanks for undertaking a laborious task.Numerous correspondents have sent in useful suggestions for improving the dictionary, all of which are gratefully acknowledged and many of which have been adopted in part or in full. Particular mention must be made of the contributions of P. B. M. Allan, R. W. Burchfield (who read through the proofs), the late Dr R. W. Chap-man, L. F. Schooling, and G. C. Vanneck.With regard to hyphening, somé doubt is often felt when the hyphen in a word coincides with the end of a line. To clarify the matter a true hyphen is repeated at the beginning of the followingE. Mol., 1963PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITIONIn this completely revised and reset edition numerous corrections and additions have been made to bring the book up to date Thanks are due to the many correspondents who have pointed out errors or suggested improvements. Especially must I express my gratitude to Dr Scholes, Dr Honeyman, and Mr J. M. Wyllie for the valuable assistance given for musical terms, chemieal terms, and many technical terms. The officials of the Clarendon Press too, past and present, have throughout been most helpful.In this edition the system of pronunciation devised for the Pocket Oxford Dictionary has been adopted, the senses have been usually numbered, the generál abbreviations have been collected into an appendix, and the swung dash has been freely employed. Swung dashTo save space the % swung dash' or * tilde' is very frequently used in the body of the article or the list of derivatives. It represents either the complete word at the beginning of the article or the un-ínflected part of that word often marked by a verticai line. As, for example, in the article repeat, ~ stands for repeat (or repeat), ~ed for repeated, ~edLY2 for repeatedLY2, ~ing for repeating, ~er* foi repeatER1; and in the article reverber|ate we have ~ating, ~ate, ~atORY, kation, /^ative, *'ANT representing reverberating, rever-berate, reverberatORY, reverberATioN, reverberATiVE, rever-berANTE. Mol., 1950