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The latest edition of the ''Concise Oxford English Dictionary'' contains over 240,000 entries and 1681 pages (concise only compared to its parent OED at over 21 000 pages).


EDITORS

  • First Edition ( and F. G. Fowler.

  • Second Edition ( alone (his brother had died in 1918).

  • Third Edition: H. G. Le Mesurier.

  • Fourth ( 1951 ) and Fifth ( 1964 ) Editions were prepared by E. McIntosh, who introduced the space-saving swung dash that stands for the headword.

  • Sixth Edition ( 1976 ): J. B. Sykes oversaw a thorough revision based on the ''Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary''.

  • Seventh Edition ( 1982 ), also by Sykes; symbols were introduced to mark uses considered controversial or offensive.

  • Eighth Edition ( 1990 ): Robert E. Allen. Being computer-based, this edition changed the original structure to a large extent.

  • Ninth Edition ( 1995 ): Della Thompson.

  • Tenth Edition (), whose compilation had involved a re-analysis of much of the core vocabulary using the British National Corpus .

  • Eleventh Edition ( 2004 ): Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. It is based on the ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' (second edition).