Example sentences for: nsoed

How can you use “nsoed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also, the preceding comments leveled against coverage of American English should in no way affect those who care little about how Americans use the language, for, in many respects, the NSOED is simply a superior dictionary.

  • It is worth reminding ourselves that the NSOED is a British dictionary, although that might not be a particularly intrusive factor in its use, for variant spellings have been given ample coverage.

  • The problems of binding a 3800-page book are formidable, but it can be done, and I believe that OUP customers would have been better served by being offered a one-volume edition (perhaps with a needed lectern of its own), enabling the NSOED to compete more readily with the other main contenders among large dictionaries, the MWIII and the Random House Unabridged .

  • Were space available, many other strengths and weaknesses of the NSOED could be enumerated in detail; but it would be more useful to offer an overall assessment and to suggest where this dictionary might fit into a library, personal or institutional.

  • There are, as we shall see, other differences; but on the most superficial level one might observe that the NSOED offers more information about fewer words, which may well prove an enticement to those who already have a largish dictionary (even the RHDU ).


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