http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11904 The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 2013-05-24T12:56:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11905 DISTINGUISHED LIBRARY LECTURE SILVA, PM “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of 600,000 – words – past and present – from across the English-speaking world... The OED started more than 150 years ago ...” (www.oed.com/public/About/). 2012-09-10T00:00:00Z