University level

The worksheet ‘Working with the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary’ was written by T. T. L. Davidson, Retired Senior Fellow of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds, and is reproduced here with permission.

The aim of this worksheet is to open up some of the possibilities of the online form of the Oxford English Dictionary as a language research tool, and it includes student assignments on specific topics such as collocational relationships and sense networks. It is an invaluable aid to using OED Online for serious advanced study.

• Working with the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary