Re: Lookin' for the OED

Hello,

> >         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.
Not really.

http://www.oed.com

But it costs $$$$$$$$$$$

There's also a CD-ROM edtion, at about the same price (> $500!)

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
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