The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

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PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
IN this completely revised and reset edition nmnerous corrections and additions have been made to bring the book up to date. Thanks are due to the many correspondents who have pointed out errors or suggested improvements. Especially must I express my gratitude to Dr Scholes, Dr Honejmian» and Mr J. M. Wyllie for the valuable assistance given for musical terms, chemical terms, and many technical terms. The officials of the Clarendon Press too, past and present, have throughout been most helpful.
In this edition the system of pronunciation devised for the Pocket Oxford Dictionary has been adopted, the senses have been usually numbered, the general abbreviations have been collected into an appendix, and the swung dash has been freely employed. Swung dash
To save space the 'swung dash' or 'tilde* is very frequently used in the body of the article or the list of derivatives. It represents either the complete word at the beginning of the article or the un-inflected part of that word often marked by a vertical Une. As, for example, in the article repeat, stands for repeat (or repeat), for repeated, ^edLY^ for repeatedLY^, for repeating, for repeatER*; and in the article reverber|ate we have '^ting, -«ate, ~at0RY, ~ATiON, ~ATIVE, -—ANT representing reverberating, reverberate, reverberatoRY, reverberATioN, reverberATivE, rever-berANT.
E. McI., 1950 Vissza