Download or read book Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Angus Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 3742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing all words current in general English from 1700 to the present day, this dictionary provides more than 600,000 definitions and more than 85,000 quotations from seven thousand authors.