"The OED faces an increasingly uphill struggle in its attempts to capture World English; almost every Anglophone country has now developed a set of distinctive uses, some more divergent than others."
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Considering that, which of the main dictionary publications can truly be called "a Dictionary of English"? And are there distinctions made between the terms "a dictionary of English" and "an English dictionary"?
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Considering that, which of the main dictionary publications can truly be called "a Dictionary of English"? And are there distinctions made between the terms "a dictionary of English" and "an English dictionary"?