The layout is pleasing to the eye and really easy to navigate. Numerous blue boxes give important additional information, usually about synonyms which are not quite as synonymous as you might have thought. All this is neatly printed in two columns on thin (but not transparent) white paper: headwords and idioms in blue, the rest in black with every new meaning numbered in bold.
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What you will find here are most words that make “current English”, concisely explained and phonetically transcribed (including many differences between British and American pronunciation), extensive information on idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs, and generous supply of illustrations (black-and-white in the text, in full colour in 24 pages of colour plates and the maps). “snakesman”) or obscure sport terms like the tennis meaning of “bagel” (wining or losing a set to zero), you won’t find those here, either. If you’re looking for Victorian crime slang (e.g. You won’t find here even such famous, thanks to Leo DiCaprio these days, words like “revenant”. There is no space here for etymological subtleties or those utterly marvellous selections of chronologically organised quotations that go back for centuries. It goes without saying that OALD is no substitute for OED. As Somerset Maugham might have said, it is redolent of romance. Few works of fiction and non-fiction have I found as engrossing as a great dictionary.
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Dictionaries are no great help in learning a language other books, newspapers, movies, TV programs and, above all, conversation are far more useful in this respect. The first English dictionary I ever used extensively was a low-priced reissue of the 26th impression of the 3rd edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD). R118 Pronunciation and phonetic symbols in the dictionaryĪ bit weird reviewing a dictionary, isn’t it? Well, no weirder than reviewing travel guides or cookbooks – or any other book, for that matter. Map 3 The Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria and the Swiss Confederation Map 2 Canada, the United States of America and the Caribbean Phonetics Editor: Michael Ashby.Ībbreviations, symbols and labels used in the dictionary Editors: Colin McIntosh & Joanna Turnbull.