Shane Martin Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest the Oxford. The compact has a simple on-line definition:
The OED is frequently too prescriptive and conservative IMO, documeting a form of English not even spoken by people like me who are from fairly near Oxford. Do not believe much of what you read in it as uncontroversial - except that if something is labelled "archaic" even in the OED, then it probably is. The old Collins Concise was a far better dictionary but it's gone downhill lately. Are we utterly OT yet? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
