SHARP PWE500 ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY & THESAURUS - NEW!

Sharp Electronic Dictionaries combine highest quality content with powerful electronics to create stylish, portable reference tools. Use them to search, cross-reference and explore the English language, and ensure that you’re never again lost for words. The Oxford Dictionary of English 2nd edition is the major new edition of the New Oxford Dictionary of English, which since it was first published in 1998 has established itself as the foremost single-volume authority on the English language. The text focuses on contemporary English as it is really used, informed by currently available evidence and the latest research. Featuring 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, the Oxford Dictionary of English offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of the English of the 21st century The New Oxford Thesaurus of English is the result of intensive ongoing research and exploitation of Oxford's bank of linguistic databases. With over 600,000 alternative and opposite words, it provides coverage of English as it is used today, including World English, and includes rare, technical, and colloquial senses. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary will help you to find quotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, and where, and when

20,000 quotations from books, films, newspapers, and speeches

3,000 authors, including politicians, actors, poets, scientists, and artists, from around the world

Coverage from classical times to the present day

Indexed by theme and keyword/author searchable.

A Note on Pronunciations:

Generally speaking, native speakers of English do not need information about the pronunciation for ordinary, everyday words such as bake, baby, beach, bewilder, boastful, or budget. For this reason, no pronunciations are given for such words (or their compounds and derivatives) in the Oxford Dictionary of English. Words such as baba ganoush, baccalaureate, beatific, bijouterie, bucolic, and buddleia, on the other hand, are less familiar and may give problems. Similarly, difficulties are often encountered in pronouncing names of people and places, especially foreign ones, such as Chechnya, Kieslowski, and Althusser. In the Oxford Dictionary of English, the principle followed is that pronunciations are given where they are likely to cause problems for the native speaker of English, in particular for foreign words, foreign names, scientific and other specialist terms, rare words, words with unusual stress patterns, and words where there are alternative pronunciations or where there is a dispute about the standard pronunciation.