- Forwarded message from Olsen, Chris -
Hello Bob and All --
I think SOME long phrases are discussed in The Browser's Dictionary, by
John Ciardi. I don't know if it is still in print, but it is authoritative
and fascinating. (Perhaps not a lot of statistical terms and phrases,
In a message dated 8/6/2000 11:58:04 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, as another chance to display my ignorance, I couldn't find "a
fortiori" in my dictionary.
Try RHD, between "aforetime" and "afoul", not between "a" and "AA".
It will surely be in OED as
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My American Heritage Talking Dictionary on CD not only looked up said
latinism, but spoke it as well. Its corrected a number of pronunciations
for me. Most recently schism.In some cases it displays a picture or
map.
I couldn't
On 6 Aug 2000 10:26:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hayden)
wrote:
snip, re: a fortiori
Now, does anyone know of a reference where one could look up phrases?
For example, "like a chicken with its head cut off". Very short
phrases are sometimes in dictionaries under the
