<P> The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, originally started in 1902 and completed in 1933, 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, Milton, Spenser, and the King James Bible . A completely new edition was produced from the OED2 and published in 1993, with further revisions following in 2002 and 2007 . </P> <P> The 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 . Revised editions appeared throughout the twentieth century to keep it up to date with changes in English usage . </P> <P> 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 . 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 . </P> <P> The OED lists British headword spellings (e.g., labour, centre) with variants following (labor, center, etc .). For the suffix more commonly spelt - ise in British English, OUP policy dictates a preference for the spelling - ize, e.g., realize vs. realise and globalization vs. globalisation . The rationale is etymological, in that the English suffix is mainly derived from the Greek suffix - ιζειν, (- izein), or the Latin - izāre . However, - ze is also sometimes treated as an Americanism insofar as the - ze suffix has crept into words where it did not originally belong, as with analyse (British English), which is spelt analyze in American English . </P>

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