That's because the spelling should be bikky which is a variant of bicky. Baron
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Elwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November, 2001 12:57 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:16434] Dictionaries -- OFF TOPIC (was: More metric items) At 06:17 PM 11/27/2001 +0000, Stephen Davis wrote: >All a 'digestive' is and ever has been to me is a tasty biccy that you dip >in your tea!! Presumably "biccy" is slang for "biscuit. It's not in my OED. Speaking of dictionaries, and since several list members have a version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), allow me to suggest a very interesting book: "Chasing the Sun -- Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made," by Jonathan Green (2000). Traces the history of dictionaries and lexicography back to the Sumerians, around 3000 b.c. I found it to be quite dense reading, but well worth the effort. I also had to look up a word on every page or two, so it helped expand my vocabulary. Jim Elwell
