On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Patrick Rourke wrote: > > Does the twenty volume Oxford > > English Dictionary tend to be available > > on the shelves of many public > > libraries in other parts of the world please?
> In the US, nearly all University libraries have the standard edition, and A long time ago when I was a freshman, I found it in the reference room of my school library in Korea. It was a great discovery. :-) Since my school library is not so farmous for its collection in non-science/engineering books ;-), I guess OED is available at libraries of most 'decent' universities in Korea. A funny thing is that no Korean student here other than those from my college in Korea (who are least likely to know such things as OED ;-p) has heard about/seen OED let alone looking it up. > many good high school libraries (for 14-18 year-olds) have the compact > edition (smaller typography). Presumably, this compact edition does not require a magnifying glass, does it? A friend of mine bought a really really tiny one which came with a (huge) magnifying glass when he went back to Korea because he wouldn't be able to access the online edition for free any more. Jungshik Shin
