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

Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by dogma1138 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:39PM (#16462162)

OED is a standard for most of not all English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language classes from as early as the first or second grade world wide (depending on the country) this alone pretty mush keeps it in circulation since it’s essentially a companion text book.

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by nkurz on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:05PM (#16462256)

Either you come from somewhere with extraordinarily talented elementary school students, or you are confusing the OED with a different similarly named work, perhaps the something from here https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/?

The OED that's being referred to here is a 20+ volume set that costs about a thousand dollars: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-english-d.... University libraries will probably have a copy or two, and I suppose some high school (9th-12th grade) libraries might have a single rarely consulted set, but I'm doubtful any elementary schools in the US have one.

The best evidence I can give for its exclusiveness might be the link on the front page of the official OED site http://www.oed.com to the information about the print edition: http://public.oed.com/about/the-oed-in-print-and-on-cd-rom/. It goes to a page not found. Rather than being a standard companion book, apparently so few copies of this are sold that no one has bothered to fix the broken link!

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by dogma1138 on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:48AM (#16464645)

I didn’t realize that this is only about the full “encyclopedia britanica” version of the OED but Oxford has multiple editions of OED like OED for schools and OED for advanced learners which most students around the world use.

http://www.oed.com/staticfiles/oedtoday2/oxford_and_the_dict...

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