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Dictionaries: Language Dictionaries

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Online Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
ISBN: 0710077610
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
Shorter Slang Dictionary
ISBN: 0415088666
This collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world.

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Subjects: Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geography, Geology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Science