Words - so innocent and powerful as they are, standing in a dictionary, how strong for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The most common dictionary used today is the Oxford English Dictionary according to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to "key in" the 59 million words of the Oxford English Dictionary second edition, 60 years to proofread them, and 540 megabytes to store them electronically. As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained approximately 301,100 main entries.
Despite its considerable size, the Oxford English Dictionary is neither the world's largest nor the earliest exhaustive dictionary of a language. Another earlier large dictionary is the Grimm brothers' dictionary of the German language, begun in 1838 and completed in 1961. The first edition of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca is the first great dictionary devoted to a modern European language (Italian) and was published in 1612; the first edition of Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates from 1694. The official dictionary of Spanish is the Diccionario de la lengua española (produced, edited, and published by the Real Academia Española), and its first edition was published in 1780. The Kangxi Dictionary of Chinese was published in 1716. The largest dictionary by number of pages is believed to be the Dutch Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal which has 49,255 pages.
Beginning with the launch of the first OED Online site in 2000, the editors of the dictionary began a major revision project to create a completely revised third edition of the dictionary (OED3), expected to be completed in 2037at a projected cost of about £34,000,000 which translates to $ 62,172,400.00 Aus.
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