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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Subject: Re: NOED (New Oxford English Dictionary)
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 16:32:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 16:32:37 1984
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Amazing how much mis-information can be generated by one rumour!

Waterloo has the contract to design the software to support the dictionary.
It will include the 12 volumes of the dictionary plus the existing 3
supplements and a new supplement, and eventually all the reference material
which was used to decide usage.  Someone in the US is doing the typing.
It is due to be available in 1988.  I don't remember the amount, but $6million
sounds in the right ballpark.  There is some long term possibility that this
may become available on laser disks (you knew there was some use for a .5 gig
ROM didn't you) for the home, but that is clearly not the short term intention.
500,000 words might be a little slow for spelling checking.  The assumed
market (to be handled by Oxford) is for researchers (lawyers mentioned).

All this approximately correct recall from a CBC program.
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