Concise Oxford English Dictionary
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (also known The Concise Oxford Dictionary officially until 2002, and usually abbreviated as COD) is probably the most popular of the Pocket Oxford dictionaries.
The latest and up-to-date edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains over 240,000 words and 1,728 pages. The parent Oxford English Dictionary is at over 21,000 pages in volume. Its eleventh edition, which has been published in 2004, is also used by the UN as the currently most authentic authority for spellings used in documents written in the English language for international use. It is also available for free on the internet and as an electronic eBook for a variety of handheld device platforms e.g. Pocket PCs and Mobile Gadgets. In addition to providing information for general use, it documents local variations such as U.S. and U.K. usage of words.