INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION
In this revised and updated edition of the Heinemann English
Dictionary you will find hundreds of new words， phrases and
acronyms which are now in current use in the English language.
In addition you will find a special feature for the new curriculum.
Language Study Boxes appear throughout the text. They
highlight grammatical terms， spelling， punctuation and fascinat-
ing language developments such as word change over time and
the influences of other hnguages in English.
NEW WORDS AND PHRASES
The speed at which new editions of dictionaries appear nowadays
has greatly increased. Gone are the days when you could keep the
same old one around until it finally fell to bits from overuse.
One of the main reasons for this is that the English language is
developing ever more rapidly as time goes by. To fulfil their
function of recording the state of the language， dictionaries
simply have to keep being rexised.
We live in a world of mass communication， thanks in great part to
television. One of the better effects of this has been to ificrease the
general public s awareness of language changes. People tend to
notice new or unusual words being used.
The new words and phrases in this edition of the Heinemann
English Dictionary reflect the many areas from which new
words enter the language.
Some new words enter the language because they are the names
given to new inventions or new gadgets or pieces of equipment.
These include catalytic converter， food processor， personal
organizer， often better known as a Filofax， which is a
trademark， personal stereo， satellite dish， video cassette
recorder and wheel clamp.
Over recent decades Britain has increasingly become a muhi-
ethnic， muhi-racial society. Thus many words from a variety of
cultures have entered the language. This is particularly apparent
in the area of food: we have Afro-C~ribbean words such~as ackee，
Samosa from India and taco from Mexico to name but a few.
Indeed， we have seen virtually a food revolution in recent year~
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