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From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
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Subject: Dictionaries (with a special note on the *OED*)
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 16:58:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 16:58:26 1985
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     I whole-heartedly agree with those who recommend *The Oxford English
Dictionary* and *The American Heritage Dictionary*.  Before anyone out
there shells-out for an *OED*, they should be alerted that OUP is in the
process of computerizing it, and an improved version will thus be made
available in the next couple of years, incorporating the errata and addenda
into the main body, and adding some altogether new material.
     In addition to the *OED* and *AHD*, let me recommend *Dictionary of
Early English* by Joseph T Shipley (Littlefield, Adams, & Co; $3.45) and
*Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words* by
Josefa Heifetz Byrne (Pocket Books; $3.50).

     I am so pleased to read the comments of other net-users who take
pleasure in a good dictionary!

                                        TNX,
                                        Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan