The Boston Public Library (of which I am a member) has a subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary! I know!!! It's ok, I'll wait for you to catch your breath. I know!!
In case you are, for some reason, not overwhelmingly jealous already, let me break this down for you:
20 printed volumes
22,000 printed pages
60,000,000 words in the 2nd edition
1,000-2,000 new words added each quarter
the definitive record of the English language
tracing word usage through 2.5 million quotations
covering the English-speaking world including North America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean
All of this, available to me, as a member of the nation's first large free municipal library.
Reason enough to live in Boston until I die.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Breaking News
Posted by
Alli
12:13 AM
- Alli September 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM
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Don't know, but the 3rd print edition that they're working on now is supposed to double the size. So 40 volumes? Wow. That is a lot of OED.
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