| Question 1: The book aims to include all English words which had substantial currency after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, John Milton, ________, and the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible. | |||
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| Question 2: On September 21, 2007 16,000 words lost their ________ in a 6th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary[3]. | |||
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| Question 3: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the ________. | |||
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| Question 4: An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the ________ took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles". | |||
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| Question 5: The remaining letters were completed by ________ ("U", "X", "Y", and "Z") and Mrs. | |||
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