The Oxford dictionary of new words / edited by Elizabeth Knowles with Julia Elliott. - Oxford ;;New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 - ix, 357 p. : ill. 25 cm.

Each entry explains the meaning of the world, and is illustrated by quotations mainly from newspapers, magazines and popular fiction. It gives the date of the earliest recorded usage, and describes how the word entered the language.

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English language.--New words.;Dictionaries.

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