Characteristics of Oxford English Dictionary and Cobuild Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principle historical dictionary of the English language published by Oxford University Press. The Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes . The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online version has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The dictionary has a total vocabulary of 414,825 and citations of 1,827,306, and the total number of pages in 12 distribution volumes, which began to be called the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The pride of this dictionary is not in terms of vocabulary. There are often dictionaries that accommodate about 400,000 vocabulary words. It is the number of quotes that tell us the true value of this dictionary. The purpose of this dictionary is to
Analysing Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the Era of Realism and Naturalism; By 1875, American writers were moving toward realism in literature. The time span from 1870 to 1910 is called the Era of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature. In the era, there were two major movements that came into existence and flourished in American Literature that are called Realism and Naturalism. Before this era, American had been looking at the world through the optimistic filters of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. As a result of a big change because of the frontier and the Civil War, Americans started giving preference to writing and thinking about reality instead of imagined or fantastic ideas. Realism is a manner and method of composition by which the author describes normal, average life, in an accurate, truthful way. The movement focused on casual characters and daily life events and situations. For example, a realist story like Stephen Crane was ordinary and was