New Oxford American Dictionary

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The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of North American English by the American editors at the Oxford University Press. The latest second edition contains some 250,000 entries and definitions.

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is based on the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), published in the UK in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations. It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary North American English.

A notable difference is that the American counterpart uses a different orthographic (alphabetic) scheme to convey pronunciations, while the British version uses a modified IPA (Gimson phonemic) system.

In May 2005, a Second Edition (NOAD2) was published, and included a CD-ROM with the full text of the dictionary for Palm OS devices.

In April 2005, Apple Computer Inc. released its Mac OS X v10.4 operating system, which comes bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source "Oxford American Dictionaries", and contains the full text of NOAD2. Apple's Dictionary program is the only published electronic version of The New Oxford American Dictionary.

References

• The New Oxford American Dictionary, First Edition, Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank R. Abate (Editors), 2192 pages, September 2001, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-511227-X
• The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Erin McKean (Editor), 2096 pages, May 2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517077-6

External links

• The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition website