Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the
English-speaking world, including the UK (council tax, Estuary English), North
America (affluential, bully pulpit, road-kill), the Caribbean (merino, zouk),
Australia (amphometer, beardie), New Zealand (Labour weekend, mokopuna), India
(garam masala), the Pacific (arjun), and South Africa (kalkoentjie, Malanite).
Subjects covered include politics (linkage, Citizen's Charter), education
(National Curriculum), cookery (ciabatta, Quorn), broadcasting (bi-media),
literary criticism (post-structuralism), music (bhangra, swingbeat, techno),
and sport (basho, clean and jerk, matchup). This volume also features a higher
number of entries in scientific fields, including medicine (lentivirus),
genetics (antisense), ecology (biodiversity), astronomy (dark matter), chemistry
(Orimulsion), and computing (freeware, cyberspace). |
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The specification in this catalogue, including without
limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations,
and month of publication, was as accurate as
possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
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