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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by kragen on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:28PM (#16461845)
I wasn't, no! Which scan did he use? I've added that to my comment.
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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by walterbell on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:15PM (#16462050)
There is contact info on his page: http://www.theabsolute.net/dictionaries/
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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by donquichotte on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:43AM (#16464415)
So it's from 1888? I'm anispeptic, phrasmotic, and even compunctuous to see if "contrafibularities" is already in there.
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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by kragen on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:37AM (#16465123)
Only the first volume is from 1888. It took almost 40 years to finish the rest of the work, publishing it in fascicles for beta testing.
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