Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by drb91 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:27PM (#16460995)

I’d pay hundreds of dollars for a version of OED that shipped in a well-defined sqlite database. I’d even pay for updates.

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by SomeHacker44 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:49PM (#16461674)

I agree. I would love a standalone app (Mac, iOS) which did not require offline access, even if it was multiple gigabytes. There was an old OED 2e app for the Mac with the full content.

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by walterbell on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:59PM (#16461722)

The standalone offline concise version includes updates, has 1/3 of the OED and is 128MB on iOS.

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by Barjak on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:42AM (#16464624)

I just published a repository that de-obfuscates the archive from OED's Windows CD-ROM version. I don't know anything about the markup language it uses and I don't know anything about JSON either, but I attempt to parse it and convert it to JSON.

Sadly, the archive only contains 300,000 words IIRC.

It's just "OED_unpack_tools.py" on github.

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