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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by walterbell on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:00PM (#16461435)
Free Oxford English Dictionary (1888), 15000 searchable page scans in a Windows app, https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407

The mobile app for "Shorter OED" has 600K words and costs $30: https://www.mobisystems.com/shorter-oxford-dictionary/

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by f_allwein on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:42PM (#16461637)
Just to be clear: The Oxford English Dictionary has 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, covering around 300,000 entries. It's quite fun to browse (despite the shortcomings mentioned in the article), so give it a try if you have the chance.
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