At 10:12 AM 4/9/2001 -0700, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>>...according to the American Heritage Dictionary, the closeest we
>>Americans have to the OED...
>
>John,
>
>I have no argument with the rest of what you say, but to even mention an
>American dictionary in the same sentence with the OED, which should have its
>place with the 7 wonders of the world, is slightly embarrassing.
Indeed. I bought a copy of the full OED on CD, and the massiveness of its
scholarship and erudition takes my breath away some days. Comparing the
American Heritage Dictionary to it is like comparing gunpowder to a cobalt
bomb. And Encarta? As they say in New Yawhk Citee, "fuggedabowdit!"
Garth
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