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[[File:OED2 volumes.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Seven of the twenty volumes of the printed version of the second edition of the ''OED'']]

The '''Oxford English Dictionary''' (or '''OED''') is a [[dictionary]]. It is [[publish]]ed by the [[Oxford University Press]] in [[England]], and is the largest [[English language|English]] dictionary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to the Third Edition of the OED|url=http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/guide-to-the-third-edition-of-the-oed/|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=30 August 2014|quote=The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is not an arbiter of proper usage, despite its widespread reputation to the contrary. The Dictionary is intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive. In other words, its content should be viewed as an objective reflection of English language usage, not a subjective collection of usage ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’.}}</ref>

It traces (or follows in detail) the historical development of the English language, and is a resource to [[writers]] and [[scholar]]s. It describes how the language has been used.<ref>"As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings". [http://public.oed.com/about/]</ref>

The second edition came to 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, published in 1989.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-english-dictionary-9780198611868?cc=gb&lang=en&#|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|date=1989-03-30|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-861186-8|editor-last=Simpson|editor-first=John|edition=Second|location=Oxford, New York|editor-last2=Weiner|editor-first2=Edmund}}</ref> Number of main entries is 231,100 and number of main entries for out-of -date words is 47,100.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OED editions|url=https://public.oed.com/history/oed-editions/|access-date=2020-08-12|website=Oxford English Dictionary|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=How many words are there in the Engli... {{!}} Lexico|url=https://www.lexico.com/explore/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language|access-date=2020-08-12|website=Lexico Dictionaries {{!}} English|language=en}}</ref>

Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was not until 1884 that it began to be published in parts, under the name of ''A New English Dictionary on historical principles; founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society''. In 1895, the title ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes. In 1933, ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' was reprinted as twelve volumes with a one-volume supplement. More supplements came over the years until 1989, when the second edition was published. Since 2000, a third edition of the dictionary has been underway, approximately a third of which is now complete.

The first [[electronic]] version of the dictionary was done in 1988. The [[online]] version has been available since 2000, and as of April 2014 was receiving over two million hits per month. The third edition of the dictionary will probably only appear in electronic form; Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, feels it unlikely that it will ever be printed.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|author = Jamieson |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7970391/Oxford-English-Dictionary-will-not-be-printed-again.html|title = Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'|accessdate=11 August 2012|first = Alastair|website = The Telegraph|date = 29 August 2010}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10777079/RIP-for-OED-as-worlds-finest-dictionary-goes-out-of-print.html|title = RIP for OED as world's finest dictionary goes out of print|last = Flanagan|first = Padraic|date = 20 April 2014|work = The Telegraph|accessdate = 8 June 2014}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
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