| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
I am looking for a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. I think
that the one I want is the two volume set that comes with a magnifying
glass.
Where is the cheapest place to buy one?
Better yet, does anyone have a softcopy on the ENET? :-)
-Jeff Bell
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| 281.1 | Book of the Month CLub | TLE::FAIMAN | Neil Faiman | Mon Dec 01 1986 15:58 | 6 |
We got ours as an introductory special from Book of the Month
Club ten years ago. I think we paid something like $10 for it;
you'll see it in book stores for $100. Keep an eye on BOMC; I
think they make this offer occasionally.
-Neil
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| 281.2 | BISTRO::TIMMER | Rien Timmer, Valbonne. | Tue Dec 02 1986 06:00 | 6 | |
I've seen one recently in a bookshop called 'Lauriat' in Shopper's
World, off Route 9 in Ma.
I don't remember the price, though.
Rien.
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| 281.3 | Wait a few years | SUPER::MATTHEWS | Don't panic | Tue Dec 09 1986 14:24 | 5 |
Although you can't copy it over the net, the University of Waterloo
is running a project to produce a machine-readable OED, possibly
distributed on CDROM. Just wait...
Val
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| 281.4 | 12" optical disk, actually | CACHE::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Wed Dec 10 1986 10:29 | 10 |
re .3:
A friend of mine, while working at WANG a year ago, had a Videodisk
OED. ( I think it was actually two disks ~3.2 GIGAbytes!)
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| 281.5 | Compact, but not CD | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Mon Jun 15 1987 09:55 | 18 | |
re: .-1, .-2
Oxford University Press is doing it now, but don't hold your breath.
Last I heard, the on-line OED was going to be sold as a service
to press/TV/writers/business; there were no plans for a machine-
readable kit on any kind of medium.
Incidentally, re .0, what you want is called the Compact OED. The
Compact OED doesn't include the Supplements (5 or 6 volumes) and
as far as I know the Supplements aren't available in the photo-
graphically reduced format. Also, the earlier Supplements are
already lamentably out of date. So if you want access to the
latest (OUP) scholarship, you're going to end up turning a lot
of pages.
Not much of a salesman, am I? ;-)
b
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