_number8_@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoyou have to subscribe to the dictionary nowlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1imageyou have to subscribe to the dictionary nowlemmy.world_number8_@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square26linkfedilinkfile-text
i’ve never been on this site before – that is to say, you don’t even get like a couple free words what a joke
minus-squaremateomaui@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 years ago$29.95 a month? ok. The $100 a year is… better I guess. Surprised Wikipedia hasn’t put something like this is place yet. Maybe their end-year donations push brings in enough to hold it off.
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoThe OED is like 150 years old with literally thousands of people scouring every possible source of English for any possible permutation of every word ever. It’s a reference for specialists, not public consumption.
minus-squaremateomaui@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoYet every unusual entry I thought to look up says this: Some aren’t even that complicated or lengthy to define. As a specialist who would possibly use it, not terribly impressed.
$29.95 a month? ok. The $100 a year is… better I guess.
Surprised Wikipedia hasn’t put something like this is place yet. Maybe their end-year donations push brings in enough to hold it off.
The OED is like 150 years old with literally thousands of people scouring every possible source of English for any possible permutation of every word ever. It’s a reference for specialists, not public consumption.
Yet every unusual entry I thought to look up says this:
Some aren’t even that complicated or lengthy to define. As a specialist who would possibly use it, not terribly impressed.