> "Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format" Very unsurprising.
> "Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so third edition is unlikely" Does anybody know the rough statistics on printed encyclopedias (which admittedly constitute a far smaller market than dictionaries)? In any case this movement away from print can only be promising news for our readership statistics. > (One therefore wonders the continuing usefulness of edition numbers.) For ease of reference, I guess. In academia, when a vagueism crops up in texts being studied or researched, attempts to pin down the precise meaning intended are often supported by reference to a dictionary; to disguise the fact that nothing more complex than "reading the dictionary" is being undertaken, full references to the OED will be supplied. There *is* something nice about edition numbers, though. > Even online, I suspect you would have edition numbers to identify major > updates, with more frequent updates occurring between those "save points". Aye, that may well be the compromise they arrive at. AGK _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
