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It was first published 126 years ago and is respected the world over.
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But the Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced.
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Instead, the 80 lexicographers who have been working on the third edition for the past 21 years have been told the fruits of their labour will exist solely online.
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The OED has been available on the internet for the past ten years and receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay £205 a year, plus VAT, to access it.
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Oxford University Press says the dominance of the internet means the latest update to the definitive record of the English language - currently 28 per cent complete - will never be published in print.
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'The print dictionary market is just disappearing - it is falling away by tens of per cent a year,' said Nigel Portwood, 44, chief executive of OUP.
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'Our primary purpose - and this takes a bit of adjusting to - is not profit, it is the dissemination of knowledge,' he said.
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'Print is still pretty important round here but, wherever possible, if there is an opportunity, we are moving out of it.'
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The printed dictionary has a shelf life of another 30 years, he predicts.
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The third edition is only expected to be completed by 2037. The OUP has already stopped producing illustrated reference books because of the growing popularity of the Wikipedia website.
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Erin McKean, co-founder and chief executive of Wordnik, an online dictionary, said: 'I want my young son to think of the print dictionary like an eight-track tape - a format that died because it was not useful enough.'
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《牛津英语大词典》在126年前首次出版，如今在全世界范围内受到尊敬。
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然而该词典的所有者宣布，该词典将不会再出纸质版本。
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在过去21年间修订第三版的80位词典编纂者被告知他们的劳动成果将只存在于网上。
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过去十年人们已经能够在网上读到《牛津英语大词典》，该词典每个月所用户点击量达两百万次，订阅费用为每年205英镑（含增值税）。
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牛津大学出版社说，由于网络已经占据主导地位，最新更新的英语词条（目前已完成了28%）将不会再出纸质版本。
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牛津大学出版社的总裁——44岁的奈杰尔•波特伍德说：“纸质词典的市场正在消失，每年减少10%。”
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他说：“我们的主要目的不是赚钱，而是传播知识，要实现这个目的还需要一些调整。”
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“印刷在我们这一行业依然相当重要，不过，只要有可能，只要有机会，我们会舍弃这一途径。”
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他预言说，纸质词典还有30年的寿命。
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第三版预计在2037年才会修订完毕。由于维基百科网站越来越受欢迎，牛津大学出版社已经停止出版带插图的工具书。
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网上词典Wordnik的联合创始人兼总裁艾琳•麦凯恩说：“我想让我年幼的儿子把纸质词典看作像八轨道磁带一样的老古董，一种因为用处不大而消亡的形式。”
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