Compare Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 3 by M. Proffitt, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Volume 3 contains 3, 000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (council tax, Estuary English), North America (affluential, bully pulpit, road-kill), the Caribbean (merino, zouk), Australia (amphometer, beardie), New Zealand (Labour weekend, mokopuna),India (garam masala), the Pacific (arjun), and South Africa (kalkoentjie, Malanite).Subjects covered include politics (linkage, Citizen's Charter), education (National Curriculum), cookery (ciabatta, Quorn), broadcasting (bi-media), literary criticism (post-structuralism), music (bhangra, swingbeat, techno), and sport (basho, clean and jerk, matchup). This volume also features ahigher number of entries in scientific fields, including medicine (lentivirus), genetics (antisense), ecology (biodiversity), astronomy (dark matter), chemistry (Orimulsion), and computing (freeware, cyberspace). | Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series: Volume 3 by M. Proffitt, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters