[CLUE-Talk] The Oxford English Dictionary

[Timothy Klein]

So I recently bought a copy of the OED, the hardcopy with all 20 volumes 
photo-reduced into one 2400 page volume, 9 pages to the page (with magnifying 
glass).  It is such an amazing dictionary, particularly for reading Chaucer, 
Milton, Shakespeare, and other classical authors that wrote in an older 
English.  I must be a serious geek, as I have spent many hours this weekend 
just reading  the OED.  The illustrative quotes for each word, some going 
back to the 1000s or earlier, are truly amazing.  It is a staggering and 
monumental work of scholarship.

Now, to the quasi-linux point.  OUP releases the OED on CD-ROM.  It is 
expensive (~$200), but cheaper than the printed version.  Further, the CD-ROM 
is currently the most up-to-date version of the dictionary, as they are 
updating it quarterly with edits that will one day be the 3rd Ed.  One day 
I'd like to have an electronic version of this oh-so-amazing dictionary.

Alas, it is Windows-only.  No Mac, even.  I am curious if anyone on the list 
has this?  Any chance it works with WINE?  It's a long shot, but I thought 
I'd ask.

(There is also an on-line subscription -- but at $300/year, that is even 
harder to justify.  Even for a serious language nut like myself).

Tim
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