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From: sjmz@otter.HP.COM (Stefek Zaba)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: online dictionaries
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Date: 7 Jan 88 10:32:13 GMT
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/ otter:comp.ai / rjw@pbhyd.UUCP (Rod Williams) /  5:53 pm  Jan  6, 1988 /
>My understanding is that the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
>is still a work-in-progress and is not yet commercially available.

Oxford Advanced Learner's is available as indicated.  The mammoth work of
reference on the historical development of the English Language, the multi-
volumed Oxford English Dictionary, is being reworked and will be made available
in electronic form with extensive tagging (i.e. *not* just flat text).
Overall manager of this project is Timothy Benbow at Oxford University Press,
Oxford, England (no email link that I know of!); there's also active academic
involvement at A Canadian University - Waterloo? - which has set up a unit to
do great things on this project.  Mail me if you want the correct details
on that (I can dig them out at home).