Re: Lookin' for the OED

Peter Clark scripsit:
>
>         Does anyone know of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary
> that can be downloaded? As far as I know, the copyright for the first edition
> should have expired some time ago.
AFAIK no one has ever taken the trouble to transcribe it.  It is a 20-volume
multifont nightmare.

--
John Cowan   <jcowan@...>   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
"One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big
thick sed and awk heavy duty data bashing script.  One of the geologists
came by, looked over my shoulder and said "Oh, that happens to me too.
Try hanging up and phoning in again."  --Beverly Erlebacher

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