Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

[Scott Badger]

I got the CD-ROM version 9 or 10 years ago, but because that version was 
only compatible with Windows 95, after just a couple years I was sol....the 
upgrade was no bargain, especially after getting so little use for my few 
hundred dollar investment....I still have it, and, I think, a Windows 95 
disk kicking around somewhere, so if anyone has an old, slow, memory 
deficient, but working laptop you want to dispose for 25 or 50 bucks....

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Halliwell" <nick.halliwell at btclick.com>
To: "'Ya Sam'" <takoitov at hotmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary


> I've got the OED on CD-ROM, which is much the full version. Cost me maybe 
> a
> couple of hundred quid (at the time that was probably US$300 or something,
> although it's now more like $400 as the dollar's fallen in value), though
> it's probably rather cheaper now. It's an absolutely essential tool for
> anyone interested in words. I make my living as a translator so it's a 
> tool
> of my trade which meant I could claim the cost of it against my income 
> tax -
> but it's among the best money I've ever spent.
>
> Here's what it says in the introduction:
>
> "This new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains the whole 
> text,
> unaltered in all essentials, of the twelve-volume first edition, which
> appeared in 1933 as a reprint of the ten-volume New English Dictionary on
> Historical Principles, itself originally published in parts between 1884 
> and
> 1928. It also contains the complete text of the four-volume Supplement to
> the Oxford English Dictionary, published between 1972 and 1986; this
> superseded the previous Supplement, which was issued in 1933 as a 
> companion
> to the main work"
>
> It goes on to explain that these original 16 volumes were then issued as 
> 20
> slimmer ones. So this is basically the whole 20-volume set. You can 
> install
> it to your computer's hard disk and then it just asks you to insert the 
> Data
> disk from the box once every 3 months.
>
> Let me know if you want any more info.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Ya Sam
> Sent: 03 May 2007 19:35
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
>
> It goes without saying that OED is the best companion when hunting down
> obscure words in Pynchon but it is unlikely that I'll ever get the 20 
> volume
>
> set. Hence my question: Does anyone here have the 2 volume SOED? Is it
> enough for you when reading logomaniac authors, would you recommend it?
>
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