Description

This is the revised version of the CD-ROM for the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition . It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including all the latest new words. It offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage.
This CD-ROM offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from Windows documents, including email and the Web, high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, and interactive educational word games, making it ideal for family use as well as for homework and school use.
New to this edition is a fascinating "English Uncovered" supplement, revealing findings from the billion-word Oxford English Corpus and the behind-the-scenes dictionary research program. Find out how new words and meanings emerge, which are the most common words, and how the language is changing.
This dictionary also contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language, from formal to slang, plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Features

• A revised edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition on CD-ROM, providing an authoritative, up-to-the-minute description of the English language, with full text search functionality of over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions.
• CD-ROM installs automatically on your hard-drive and is ready whenever you need it
• NEW: Brand new 'English Uncovered' supplement reveals compelling facts about the English language, based on the research of the Oxford English Corpus
• High-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words - settle all those arguments about how to pronounce a word once and for all
• Interactive educational word games - Hangman, Boggle, Conundrum - to make using the dictionary fun
• System requirements: Windows only PC with minimum Pentium-class processor; 64 MB of RAM; 16-speed CD-ROM or DVD drive; Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP; Minimum 100 MB free hard disk space (150 MB recommended); SVGA monitor, set to display high colour (64K or 16-bit colour); Windows compatible 16-bit sound card

Product Details

20 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-920915-6ISBN10: 0-19-920915-4