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Re: OED
- Subject: Re: OED
- From: Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:36:26 +0000
Historical
Thesaurus doesn't strike to the heart of what words mean
It's a dictionary of senses rather than of words. If you know what
you mean, it will find the word that eluded you. For example, I have
the sense 'country dweller' and I want a collective noun. HTOED
allows me to find 'the ruralty'. It's a different way of thinking and
is very cumbersome with the book, but the computerized version makes
it reasonably easy.