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Product Description This dictionary comprehensively covers the vocabulary of the English-speaking world. It features hundreds of new words and meanings with a special focus on fast-changing areas of the language such as new technology, e-commerce, fashion, and youth culture. In addition there is a 40-page section including information on countries and nationalities, alphabets and accents, weights and measures, and a games and puzzles wordfinder. There is also a grammar guide and a section covering the language emerging through new technologies such as SMS. Review 'The biggest seller, earning around L500,000 in revenue - it is currently number two in the bestseller lists.' Emma Cook, Independent on Sunday, 1.8.99'I am never far from a copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary' - Pauline McLynn, Daily Mail 4.2.2000 About the Author Judy Pearsall edited the highly acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English, and is the Managing Editor for all Oxford's English Dictionaries.