The Oxford English Dictionary is the biggest and best dictionary of the English Language, and a world-famous monument of scholarship. Until recently, this was in forty printed volumes and had become impossibly expensive to produce. Now it's been put on line. There are the two options available. You can have the convenience, speed, and reliability of the whole dictionary on a single disk. Keep it in your D: drive and the world's biggest database of language can be summoned with a mouse-click. The alternative is to subscribe to the online version, which will be regularly updated.It's worth noting that the OED editors have decided to adopt an all-inclusive policy.

New English, slang, jargon, and even obscenities are all listed. This is one for the school library.

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