New Oxford American Dictionary

New Oxford American Dictionary

Author	Angus Stevenson (editor) Christine A. Lindberg (editor)
Subject	Dictionary of American English
Genre	dictionary
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	third edition, August, 2010
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	2096
ISBN	978-0-19-539288-3

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.

NOAD is based upon the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), published in the United Kingdom in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations. It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary American English.

NOAD includes a diacritical respelling scheme to convey pronunciations, as opposed to the Gimson phonemic IPA system that is used in NODE.

Editions

First

Published in September 2001, the first edition was edited by Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank Abate.

Second edition

Published in May 2005, the second edition was edited by Erin McKean. The edition added nearly 3,000 new words, senses, and phrases. It was in a large format, with 2096 pages, and was 8½" by 11" in size. It included a CD-ROM with the full text of the dictionary for Palm OS devices.

Since 2005 Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source "Oxford American Dictionaries", and contains the full text of NOAD2. The Amazon Kindle reading device also uses NOAD as its built-in dictionary, along with a choice for the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Oxford University Press published NOAD2 in electronic form in 2006 at the OxfordAmericanDictionary.com,^[1] and in 2010, along with the Oxford Dictionary of English, as part of Oxford Dictionaries Online.^[2]

Third edition

Published in August 2010, the third edition was edited by Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg. The edition added more than 2,000 new words, senses, and phrases.

Fictitious entry

The dictionary includes an entry for the word "esquivalience", which it defines as meaning "the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities". This is a fictitious entry, intended to protect the copyright of the publication. The entry was invented by Christine Lindberg, one of the editors of the NOAD.^[3]

With the publication of the second edition, a rumor circulated that the dictionary contained a fictitious entry in the letter 'e'. New Yorker contributing editor Henry Alford combed the section, and discussed several unusual entries he found with a group of American lexicographers. Most found "esquivalience" to be the most likely candidate, and when Alford approached NOAD editor in chief Erin McKean she confirmed it was a fake entry, which had been present since the first edition, in order to protect the copyright of the CD-ROM edition. Of the word, she said "its inherent fakeitude is fairly obvious".^[4]^[5]

The fake entry apparently ensnared dictionary.com, which included an entry for it (that has since been removed) which it attributed to Webster's New Millennium Dictionary, both of which are owned by the private company Lexico.^[4] Possibly due to its licensing of Oxford dictionaries, Google Dictionary included the word, listing three meanings and giving usage examples.

Other Oxford Dictionaries

Oxford American Dictionary (OAD)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED)
Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE)
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COED)
Australian Oxford Dictionary (AOD)
Canadian Oxford Dictionary (CanOD)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD)

References

↑ OxfordAmericanDictionary.com
↑ OxfordDictionaries.com
↑ Nathan Bierma (September 21, 2005). "Dictionary sets a trap with an invented word". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on July 18, 2007.
1 2 Henry Alford (August 29, 2005). "Not a Word". New Yorker.
↑ Anne Curzan (8 May 2014). Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History. Cambridge University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9781107020757.

Bibliography

New Oxford American Dictionary, First Edition, Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank R. Abate (editors), 2192 pages, September 2001, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-511227-X.
New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Erin McKean (editor), 2096 pages, May 2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517077-6.
New Oxford American Dictionary, Third Edition, Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg (editors), 2096 pages, August 2010, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-539288-3.

External links

Look up esquivalience in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition website

Dictionaries of English

Old and Middle English	An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Dictionary of Old English Middle English Dictionary

Historic	Catholicon Anglicum (1483) The English Schoole-Master (1596) The New World of English Words (1658) A New English Dictionary (1702) An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721) A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Webster's Dictionary (1828) Century Dictionary (1889–91)

American English	American Heritage Dictionary of American English Dictionary of American Regional English Imperial Dictionary New Oxford American Oxford American Random House Webster's Webster's New World Webster's Third New International World Book Dictionary

British English	Chambers Collins Oxford English, Concise Oxford English, Shorter Oxford English, Historical Thesaurus, Oxford Dictionary of English Penguin

Canadian English	List of Canadian English dictionaries

Australian English	Australian National Australian Oxford Macquarie

Online	Wiktionary Collaborative International Dictionary of English OmegaWiki Urban Dictionary Wordnik

Learners / ESL	Cambridge Advanced Learner's Collins COBUILD Advanced Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Oxford Advanced Learner's

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