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It is the proper function of a reviewer to question the reason behind the publication of a book, though, in the present case I believe it to be that Oxford University Press took a long, hard look at the revenues to be realized from a dictionary that could compete, in the UK market at least, with dictionaries of similar length published by Collins, Longman, Chambers, and others.
According to Bob May, professor of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford, president of the Royal Society, and former UK Chief Scientist, such initiatives might be ‘driven more by political expediency than common sense, but the moment you see that train beginning to roll, there's a chance to do something useful with it’.
In a store on Oxford Street in London I saw a jacket, made in Britain, that announced in large letters: “Rodeo--100 per cent Boys for Atomic Atlas.”
' ” The Concise Oxford allows both pronunciations.
In recent years, according to The Oxford Companion to the English Language , The BBC Pronunciation Unit has made some changes in its recommendations to broadcasters, who are now being advised, among other things, to stress the first instead of the second syllable of controversy ; the second syllable of dispute as both verb and noun; and the first syllable of cervical , instead of the second (with - i - as in nine ).