I wrote to Oxford today to complain that there should be a
Macintosh version. Please do likewise, if you're a Mac user
and think that we deserve better!
Already did so, in fact, just hours after I posted, I got a response (via
snail mail) telling me they had no intention of doing so,
At 06:42 -0400 2002-05-02, Patrick T. Rourke wrote:
Ok, looks like the phrase was have only a minority share, a little less
inflammatory than niche market, but the only was suggestive. Apologies
for misleading anyone with the quotes; I must have conflated it with
something else.
How many tens
the online edition for free any more.
Actually, I am referring to the edition with the magnifying glass. This
(the Compact Edition) is btw different from the New Shorter Oxford English
Dicitonary, which only goes back to around 1800 or so and is missing a lot
of the features of the full OED.
I
mean holds
itself up by its bootstraps!
Natural/human languages are so bootstrapped as well as being ambiguous,
that's part of what distinguishes them from codes (e.g., computer
languages). While the purpose of the OED is in fact to be a descriptive
dictionary (on historical principles
Should have added this to previous message
Does the twenty volume Oxford
English Dictionary tend to be available
on the shelves of many public
libraries in other parts of the world please?
In the US, nearly all University libraries have the standard edition, and
many good high school
I was a freshman, I found it in the reference
room of my school library in Korea. It was a great discovery. :-)
Since my school library is not so farmous for its collection in
non-science/engineering books ;-), I guess OED is available
at libraries of most 'decent' universities in Korea. A funny
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:05 AM, Patrick Rourke wrote:
In the US, nearly all University libraries have the standard edition, and
many good high school libraries (for 14-18 year-olds) have the compact
edition (smaller typography).
It's also available on CD for Windows.
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also available on CD for Windows.
And, I believe most universities in the US have a site license to
online version of OED at http://dictionary.oed.com. At those schools,
OED is just a few keystrokes/mouse clicks away.
Jungshik Shin
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