F. G. Fowler

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITIONThis sixth edition of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary represents a thorough revision, based largely on the latest (1976) edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and on the most recent materials available from the work still in progress on the new Supplement to the Oxford...

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITIONThis sixth edition of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary represents a thorough revision, based largely on the latest (1976) edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and on the most recent materials available from the work still in progress on the new Supplement to the Oxford...

PREFACEThe compilers of this book would be wanting in courtesy if they did not expressly say what might otherwise be safely left to the reader's discernment: the frequent appearance in it of any author's or newspaper's name does not mean that that author or newspaper offends more often than others...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book is nominally an abridgement of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, but has in fact cost its compilers more labour, partly because the larger book was found not to be easily squeezable, and partly owing to changes in method unconnected with mere reduction of...