The best hardcover unabridged English language dictionary is the
Oxford English Dictionary. The 20-volume printed set retails for $895
according to [ http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/01 98611862.html ]. This web
page hypes the product as follows:
"The "greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken" (The New
York Times) celebrates its 75th anniversary
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the magnificent Oxford English
Dictionary. Begun in 1857, published in ten volumes in 1928, and
subsequently revised, expanded to 20 volumes, and adapted to the
electronic age, the OED has become the most venerated English language
reference ever compiled. For those who use and love language, the OED
has no peer.
With more than 22,000 pages of definitions, nearly 2.5 million
illustrative quotations from writers as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer
and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare and Raymond Chandler, Charles
Darwin and Quentin Tarantino, the OED is a dictionary like no other.
Its entries offer the most authoritative definitions, detailed
information on pronunciation, variant spellings throughout each word's
history, extensive treatment of etymology, and details of area of
usage and of any regional characteristics (including geographical
origins). It is, as Time observed, "a scholarly Everest.""
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Answered by
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12:20 AM on July 09, 2008