Review by Choice Review
Portuguese, according to the editor, is an important but often overlooked language spoken by 203 million people in ten countries according to Ethnologue (CH, Nov'15, 53-1064); most of these speakers reside in Portugal and Brazil. Expansion of the Portuguese language in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America challenged its linguistic uniformity, so to create a common orthography, a commission in the late 20th century established the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Acordo Ortográfico). This new dictionary has the advantage of being prepared after these new rules were implemented; the work is thus not simply a revision, as are most older dictionaries. Created by a large international team of experts working over four years, this bilingual dictionary incorporates Brazilian and European-Portuguese, and American and British-English terms. Beyond presenting the meaning and translation of a word, current usage for most terms is illustrated in idiomatic sentences. Using English and Portuguese electronic database corpuses of over 2 billion words for each language, this Oxford dictionary aims to be more comprehensive and eliminate the outdated usage and translation problems of older works. This resource will be invaluable for all college and university libraries as well as large public libraries because of its currency. It is also available (by monthly subscription to individuals) in electronic form on the Oxford Dictionaries (CH, Nov'10, 48-1195) portal at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All libraries. All levels. --Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young University
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
