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/recommends the oxford shorter english dictionary.
actually, as an aside (which is completely relevant), i was told to find some refences which had more academic weight for my thesis (i.e., they didn't know the subjects i was talking about at that point), and i found the lot in the shorter OED - it's practically an encyclopaedia!
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