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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Shame.. I've always loved dictionaries. I purchased the 4th edition of the two volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary a number of years ago. Not as concise as it's big brother but still very useful for it's time. |
Surely the Shorter Oxford is
more concise than its big brother. Concise means "cut short", "brief", etc - as the dictionary will tell you
.