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At a rough guess, the NSOED contains about 200,000 such “entries,” or some twenty per cent fewer than the Random House Unabridged [ RHDU ], the popular dictionary nearest in size.
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.
\/; curiously, that is shown as a variant pronunciation under Asian, Asiarch, and Asiatic, and it is hard to see why it was omitted from Athanasian ; perhaps the NSOED editors have the inside skinny (a sense that is in, along with solid coverage of other neologisms, slang and standard).
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.
I must express a prejudice, however, for the benefit of all who have a personal computer with a CD-ROM and who have the wherewithal to acquire the OED2e on CD-ROM: there is nothing like it in terms of ease of access, speed, convenience (as compared with hoisting one or more volumes of the OED2e or NSOED every time one wants to look something up).