I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing

Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by wolverine876 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:12AM (#36267524)

I don't know what Barnes & Noble carries in stores or what dictionaries are printed now. Paper dictionaries have limited space for obvious reasons. The paper dictionary that ignored those restrictions, the Oxford English Dictionary OED, was 20+ volumes.

Now most dictionaries are online like encylopedias, again for obvious reasons, and the leading ones at least have etymologies:

The OED is the definitive historical dictionary of English, including its etymologies. Unfortunately it's not free, but you might be a member of an institution that subscribes.

https://www.oed.com/

The leading American dictionaries are Merriam-Webster, which has a free edition and a subscription-based unabridged edition (Merriam-Webster now is owned by Britannica, which was American last I knew), and American Heritage, which is free and which has a section on Indo-European and Semitic roots of words.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/

https://www.ahdictionary.com/

Hope that helps!

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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by jjtheblunt on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:15PM (#36272445)

That’s great info and i hadn’t looked to the different versions of current dictionaries. Thanks

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