The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION Mr. E. McIntosh was responsible for preparing the relevant material for this revised and reset edition and for conducting it through the press until the early part of 1968 when iUness made it impossible for him to carry on. He had already received much valuable advice and assistance from Mrs. E. J. Pusey and Mrs. J. Coulson of the Oxford English Dictionary rooms in Oxford, and the first-named (who is editor-designate of the Oxford School Dictionary) and Mr. R. W. Burchfield (editor of the forthcoming new Supplement to O.E.D.) were responsible for the final stages. The publishers would like to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the devotion and perseverance of the retiring editor who, at his home in Exmouth, has kept the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (and the Concise Oxford Dictionary) under surveillance for more than a quarter of a century. The etymologies in the new edition have been revised throughout by Dr. G. W. S. Friedrichsen, ultimately on tiie basis of the material presented in the Oxford Dictianmy of English Etymology. A completely new section, A Supplement of Australian and New Zealand Words, has been added. It will be of particular interest to antipodean users of P.O.D., but it is hoped that it will also be of value to many other people at home and abroad. Words already in the body of tlie dictionary have been revised, words contained in tiie Addenda of tiie impressions published since the fourth edition of 1942 have been transferred to the main text, and a large nimiber of new words and senses has been added. Such revision would be the poorer without the assistance of the