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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I synced my Clara last night to get a new library book and it installed the firmware update but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Does anyone know if the Oxford dictionary is English or American? I'm curious because my old Sony reader had both versions. I found the American version was best to use when reading books from the US or Canada. The English version worked better with books from England or Australia. The English dictionary was especially helpful to me when reading English or Australian books that had slang I wasn't familiar with.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
American is Eng. So of corse the Oxford English Dictionary is English be it American or British.
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On the Sony readers there are two Oxford dictionaries. I started up one of my Sonys to see what they're called - they're the "New Oxford American Dictionary" and the "Oxford Dictionary of English". As I said before, one is often better when reading US and Canadian books and the other is better when reading English or Australian books.
In my experience using both dictionaries, each had some words (especially slang) that weren't in the other. For words that had more than one meaning, each dictionary generally listed its country's more commonly used definition first.
I was curious if anyone knows yet which Oxford Dictionary is coming to Kobo.