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The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.
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At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.
F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":
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Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.
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It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary
* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".
According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.
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* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.
* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.
* Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.
* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.
: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.
* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )
* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford University Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-19-504652-8
Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:
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* Saliba, John A., Understanding New Religious Movements, 2nd edition ( Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York & Oxford, 2003 ).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed.
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* Cross, Frank L. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2nd ed.
( Dent ' Master Musicians ' series, 1990 ; 2nd edition Oxford, 2001, ISBN 0-19-816484-X
* Van de Mieroop, Marc: A History of the Ancient Near East, 2nd ed., Oxford 2007.
" Canadian English: 250 Years in the Making ," in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., p. xi.
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* One World: The Ethics of Globalisation, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002 ; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002 ; 2nd edition, pb, Yale University Press, 2004 ; Oxford Longman, Hyderabad, 2004.
Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of the Popes, 2nd edition ( Oxford University Press, 2006 ), 13 – 4.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed, 1984.
* Egoff, Sheila, Stubbs, G. T., & Ashley, L. F., eds, Only Connect: Readings on Children ’ s Literature ( Toronto & New York: Oxford University Press, 1969 ; 2nd ed., 1980 ; 3rd ed., 1996 )
" Leoncavallo, Ruggero ", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, pp. 278 – 279.
* for the derivation of tsar and Herberstein's contribution of czar, see the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, entry on tsar.
" The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed.
* For the derivation of tsar and Herberstein's contribution of czar, see the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, entry on tsar.
Oxford: Blackwell ( 2nd ed.
Isabella struck west again, reaching Oxford on the 2nd October where she was " greeted as a saviour " – Adam Orleton, the bishop of Hereford, emerged from hiding to give a lecture to the university on the evils of the Despensers.
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* Robinson, Richard, Plato's Earlier Dialectic, 2nd edition ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953 ).
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