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  • 1SOED — abbr. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary …

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  • 2Shorter Oxford English Dictionary — The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled down version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED. The sixth edition… …

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  • 3Etymological fallacy — The etymological fallacy holds, erroneously, that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present day meaning. This is a linguistic misconception, based on a mistaken idea concerning the… …

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  • 4Apostrophe — redirects here. For other uses, see (disambiguation). Apostrophes redirects here. For the music book, see Apostrophes: A Book of Tributes to Masters of Music. For other uses, see Apostrophe (disambiguation). ’ Apostrophe …

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  • 5Juncture loss — (also known as junctural metanalysis, false splitting, misdivision, refactorization, or rebracketing) is the linguistic process by which two words (often an article and a noun) become partially or wholly affixed. Some examples would be if a… …

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  • 6Rebracketing — For the process by which the elements of a word are given new meanings, see Folk etymology. Contents 1 Role in forming new words 2 Examples 3 …

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  • 7Longest word in English — The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. In addition to words derived naturally from the language s roots (without any… …

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  • 8New Oxford American Dictionary —   …

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  • 9Diphthong — A diphthong (  /ˈdɪf …

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  • 10Oxford Dictionary of English — A copy of the 2001 edition of NODE The Oxford Dictionary of English (formerly The New Oxford Dictionary of English, often abbreviated to NODE) is a single volume English language dictionary first published in 1998 by Oxford University Press. This …

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