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The Dictionary Unit for South African English. South African Concise Oxford Dictionary

Rajend Mesthrie;
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  • Published: 20 Oct 2011 Journal: Lexikos (issn: 1684-4904, eissn: 2224-0039, Copyright policy)
  • Publisher: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT
Abstract
The South African Concise Oxford Dictionary (henceforth SACOD) is a South Af-rican version of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the first time that this particular hybrid has been prepared. It is testimony to the enduring success of the work of the Dictionary Unit for South African English at Rhodes University, headed by teams that included Jean and William Branford in the 1970s, Penny Silva in the 1990s and now, Kathryn Kavanagh. The lexicographical work from the unit saw the publication of four editions of the Dictionary of Southern African English (1978, 1980, 1987, 1991), a South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary (SAPOD) and the Dictionary of South African Engli...
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doi: 10.5788/13--741 , 10.5788/13-0-741
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free text keywords: Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091, Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, PL1-8844, Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages, PD1-7159, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, Sociology, South African English, language.human_language, language, Classics, General english
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