Editing Oxford English Dictionary (section)

== Relationship to other Oxford dictionaries ==
[[File:Oxford University Press dictionaries, 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|A selection of various Oxford English Dictionaries: pocket, paperback, compact and concise versions.]]

The ''OED''{{'}}s utility and renown as a historical dictionary have led to numerous offspring projects and other dictionaries bearing the Oxford name, though not all are directly related to the ''OED'' itself.

The ''[[Shorter Oxford English Dictionary]],'' originally started in 1902 and completed in 1933,<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex1986/032_Lesley%20S.%20Burnett%20-Making%20it%20short_%20The%20Shorter%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary.pdf |title=Making it short: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary |last=Burnett |first=Lesley S. |date=1986 |journal=ZuriLEX '86 Proceedings |access-date=7 June 2014 |pages=229–233 |archive-date=14 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514002457/http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex1986/032_Lesley%20S.%20Burnett%20-Making%20it%20short_%20The%20Shorter%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> is an abridgement of the full work that retains the historical focus, but does not include any words which were obsolete before 1700 except those used by [[Shakespeare]], [[John Milton|Milton]], [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]], and the [[King James Bible]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Shortening the ''OED'': Experience with a Grammar-Defined Database |last1=Blake |first1=G. Elizabeth |date=1992 |journal=ACM Transactions on Information Systems |doi=10.1145/146760.146764 |last2=Bray |first2=Tim |last3=Tompa |first3=Frank Wm |author-link3=Frank Tompa |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=213–232 |s2cid=16859602 |doi-access=free}}</ref> A completely new edition was produced from the ''OED2'' and published in 1993,<ref>{{Cite book |title=The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-19-861134-9 |location=Oxford |editor-last=Brown |editor-first=Lesley |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newshorteroxford00lesl}}</ref> with revisions in 2002 and 2007.

The [[Concise Oxford English Dictionary|''Concise Oxford Dictionary'']] is a different work, which aims to cover current English only, without the historical focus. The original edition, mostly based on the ''OED1'', was edited by [[Francis George Fowler]] and [[Henry Watson Fowler]] and published in 1911, before the main work was completed.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-19-969612-3 |postscript=,}} facsimile reprint.</ref> Revised editions appeared throughout the twentieth century to keep it up to date with changes in English usage.

''The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English'' was originally conceived by F. G. Fowler and H. W. Fowler to be compressed, compact, and concise.  Its primary source is the Oxford English Dictionary, and it is nominally an abridgement of the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It was first published in 1924.<ref>Thompson, Della. ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.545900 The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English]'', 8th Edition. Oxford University Press. 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-19-860045-9}}.</ref>

In 1998 the ''[[New Oxford Dictionary of English]]'' (''NODE'') was published. While also aiming to cover current English, ''NODE'' was not based on the ''OED''. Instead, it was an entirely new dictionary produced with the aid of [[corpus linguistics]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/reviews/re-oed1.htm |title=Review: Oxford Dictionary of English |date=18 September 2010 |access-date=29 July 2014 |website=World Wide Words |last=Quinion |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Quinion |archive-date=2 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702013509/http://worldwidewords.org/reviews/re-oed1.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> Once ''NODE'' was published, a similarly brand-new edition of the ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' followed, this time based on an abridgement of ''NODE'' rather than the ''OED''; ''NODE'' (under the new title of the ''Oxford Dictionary of English'', or ''ODE'') continues to be principal source for Oxford's product line of current-English dictionaries, including the ''[[New Oxford American Dictionary]]'', with the ''OED'' now only serving as the basis for scholarly historical dictionaries.