Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:16:45 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:05:22 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

I use the OED app. Lot faster than opening a book and paging through to Q.


Do you pay the $295 a year subscription cost?

That is the price for the online version that includes monthly updates
and other subscriber benefits.

Apps are much cheaper.

While nothing app related compares to the online or print (which is
equivalent to the 20 volume OED, 600,000 word, 21,000+ pages) the best
OED app is for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and called 'Shorter Oxford
English Dictionary' based on the same 20 volume 600K words, less
unnecessary content and obscure quotations - currently $30.


Ah, didn't know that. Thanks.



The Windows 8 app version (40% less words) is called the 'Concise Oxford
English Dictionary' and costs $10.


But the COD is a different dictionary. It's based on the OED, but it's
not the same.


Like many, I had the paper version for years (picked up cheaply at an
Estate sale)...the local library was more than happy to accept it as a
donation and help me de-clutter my home.


My print version is the two volume version. It has all the same
content as the 20-volume version, but with greatly reduced size, so it
needs to be read with a magnifying glass.

Iirc, the 'Concise' is not as inclusive...for apps its in the 200+K
entry range vs. the 600+K range of the 'Shorter' version.

The 20 volume edition (word wise) has about 172K full word entries,
about 47K obsolete, and 9K subentries.

- thus for most a one time payment of $10 or $30 for an app of either
version would appear to be more than sufficient.

Back in high school myself and two other students were awarded National
Science Foundation scholarships to study for the summer after our junior
year in high school at universities (MIT, Rensselaer, and
Carnegie-Mellon) with that award came the full Encyclopedia Brittanica.
- while it was nice to have received the latter award that Funk and
Wagnalls Encyclopedia my limited income parents provided more than met
all my needs.


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...winston
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