The
eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has been
fully revised, updated, and redesigned, as is appropriate for the first
Concise of the 21st century. The dictionary contains more than 240,000
words, phrases, and meanings, of which almost 2,000 are new to this
edition.
The new entries give us a snapshot of life in 2004.
The news is filled with talk of gangmasters, the congestion charge, sky
marshals, and health tourism; pole dancing, bookcrossing, and speed
dating are the things that entertain us; football matches can end in
handbags, and bumsters are popular with middle youth and metrosexuals.
And, of course, if we want to make something seem more interesting we
sex it up.
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