Includes definitions, explanatory photographs and illustrations, and guidelines for using the dictionary.

A linguistic history, told through anecdote and humor, of American speech and English word usage in the United States.

From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus...