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Subject:Re: OED is ONLINE!!! From:Stephen Forrest <techwriter -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Sat, 1 Nov 1997 16:01:42 GMT
The OED is available on CD-ROM, but I don't know how much it costs.
At 10:00 AM 10/30/97 -0500, Marie Paretti wrote:
>At 08:25 AM 10/30/97 -0600, Jane Bergen wrote:
>>Sometime ago, someone on the list asked if the OED (Oxford English
>>Dictionary) was online. I never saw an answer, but today I found it. If
>>you're interested, take a look"
>>
>>http://www.oed.com/dicts.html
>
>Not quite. I just checked it out and you can't search it without a
>password. You can, however, check out the word of the day and a couple of
>other things. Start at
>
>http://www.oed.com/dictsframe.html
>
>if you want the home page.
>
>Marie
>(trying to hide my disappointment, since I really want my own OED)