English 416: History and Structure of English

Selected Resources, Fall 2007

Versions of the OED Available in the Library

Electronic

• OED Online ~ this electronic version contains the text from the Second Edition and its Additions volumes, as well as draft entries from the New (Third) Edition; each entry notes which edition the entry comes from.

   

  Print

• Compact Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically, 2nd ed. 1991. Reference R 423 O981991 ~ this edition comes with a microprint magnifier

• Oxford English Dictionary. Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. 1972. Reference R 423 O98SUPP ~ Four volumes published from 1972 to 1986

• The Oxford English Dictionary: Being a Corrected Reissue... 1978. Reference R 423 O98 ~ a reprint of the 1933 edition

OED user guides

• A User's Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary. 1991. Reference R 423 O981991 User's Guide ~ Ask for this at the Reference Desk

• Help with Using OED Online ~ information on the bibliography, abbreviations, and symbols

• About the Oxford English Dictionary ~ includes links to the History, information on the editors, and dictionary facts

Useful Links and Books

• Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary facimile (at http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm)

• The Middle English Compendium (at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mec/)

• Old English Made Easy (at http://home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_dictionaries.htm)

• Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 3rd edition, 2007 (at http://proxy.elmhurst.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com/entry.jsp?volid=453)

• WordSpy (at http://www.wordspy.com/)\

• Online Entymology Dictionary (at http://www.etymonline.com/index.php)

• Dictionary of American slang~ located in the reference section, call number: R 427.09 W478D1995

Created 22 September, 2003
Last revised 29 September 2007 by J. Hill, Reference Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College