A couple months ago I got a new OED. I still have an older Shorter OED, two thick bound volumes. But my new OED is the whole thing. Unabridged. A serious scholarly work, with nothing left out.
But it is flat and round, with a hole in the middle.
Is it strange to actually want the twenty-something volumes in the print edition, just because you can touch the words?
But it is flat and round, with a hole in the middle.
Is it strange to actually want the twenty-something volumes in the print edition, just because you can touch the words?
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Re: My New OED
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 5:46 AMNo. I've had the 20-volume print edition for nearly 10 years. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Re: My New OED
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 7:23 AMI covet the 20-volume version ... will have to settle for the disk version right now ... I totally understand the tactile pleasure of having this big heavy book sitting on your lap with the thin, half translucent pages, it really makes you marvel at how complex our language is when you see how much physical bulk that all those words and the history of those words take up. It is, I imagine, the same sort of feeling one would get by staring through one of them giant telescopes you work on, Jeff ...
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Re: My New OED
Wed, October 4, 2006 - 7:39 PMHow is the CD (DVD?) version.
I recall it get poor reviews when the OED first came out with it some years back.
I used to own the two volume with-a-magnifying-glass set, but that was long ago. -
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Re: My New OED
Wed, October 4, 2006 - 7:43 PMI have an older CD version. It seems nice enough to me - functional, nothing incredibly gee-whiz about it, but it gets the job done. It contains all the information found in the paper version.
I've always wanted to see one of those two-volume completes, but never have. -
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Re: My New OED
Wed, October 4, 2006 - 8:51 PMI think we have one at the University - I will double-check -
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