> It gives far more definitions, etymology and usage than any and every online resource.
But the full Oxford is online, including all the notes they use to produce it like sources. That’s far broader and deeper than your shorter edition.
But the full Oxford is online, including all the notes they use to produce it like sources. That’s far broader and deeper than your shorter edition.
e.g. the word of the day on oed.com is "quarterstaff" which gives the full OED entry, but type or click "quartet" or the other linked words, then you're returned to the homepage, and a subscriber login pops up. There's a £90 instead of £200 for a year's personal sub offer on the front page too.
I can buy the Compact Oxford for that. After seeing mention in this thread of its tiny price on Ebay, and a quick search, I may very well spend £20 or £30. :)
And you probably have a full access subscription anyway, through your local public library, or maybe your alma mater if you have one, or maybe your employer if it’s a large knowledge organisation.
pull out dictionarybout of shelf, look up word
Vs
Find out which institution I belong to has access to oed (which you’re bound to forget unless you’re in the word smithing business and use oed every day) .
Figure out what contorted method this institution used to log in
Remember your usr / password
Reset usr/ password
Figure out what combination of special characters your institution requires for your password
Look up word
Doesn’t support Firefox/ safari!
Fire up chrome
What are the special characters for the password again?
Reset password, etc
I just went on vacation. As I’m heading out I grab my mirrorless digital camera. Then I remember I’ll need the charger. And the SD card is in the card reader upstairs.
So I said, “f*it”, grabbed a handful film and my OM-1.
It's a great resource to have handy. Personally I set Firefox up with a search bookmark so I can just type 'oed wombat' to look up 'wombat'; if you're not signed in it goes through a quick fill-in-the-library-card-number interstitial and then you're straight at the definition.
Something to look into, soon. Thanks!
I said it was a deeper resource available online. And it is!
Much as I might like access to the full thing, the book might last me in the home 10-30 years, or life. Now were the sub £20-£30 a year I may well have, while the kids were at school...
You can go into a public library in most western countries and access it for free.
The full Oxford is a marvellous thing, but in the past decades, the New Shorter has grown to be what I reach for first.