This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings tohave been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in thetradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attemptingto record the history of some recent additions to the language, but,unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words,phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands asan independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) tothe Oxford English Dictionary..