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From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dictionary for the Amy?
Summary: dictionary?
Message-ID: <1034@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 02:49:26 GMT
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In article <554@grape3.UUCP>, king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) writes:
> In article <5287@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> multi@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Kevin Su) writes:
> >Does there exist a PD(Prefered)/Commercial version of computerized dictionary 
> >for the Amiga?   [...]
> 
> The new version of the Oxford English Dictionary is available on CD-ROM.  Of
> course, that would mean getting a CD-ROM reader and some appropriate software,
> but hey!  Nothing but the best!  :-)
> 

Yeah, isn't it also in the range of several hundred dollars just for the
CD?

Kevin:  You may well find a dictionary for the Amiga, but it may be so
expensive, that you might well consider buying one of those handheld
electronic ones.  Some have 100,000 words, with definitions, and 400,000
synonyms.  Powerful stuff.



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