Still no new license -- but draft text available

Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Sat Aug 5 21:10:04 EDT 2000


[Grant Griffin]
> To heck with that fancy OED stuff, I go by Webster's.  And in
> Webster's, it's "epistemological", bub.  ;-)

[Aahz]
> Which Webster's?  There are so many to choose from.  Me, I stick with
> the reliable Merriam-Webster.

[Grant Griffin]
> Well, if you really want to know, it's "Webster's New World Dictionary
> of the American Language, Complete Reference Edition".
>
> I don't know about Merriam-Webster (BTW, who asked that "Merriam" guy
> to stick his nose into this whole nutty lexicography* thing?), but I
> should confess at this point that mine actually spells it the same as
> the OED (as reported above. ;-)
>
> (merriam-webster-isn't-so-bad,-but-don't-whatever-you-do,-don't
>    -trust-those-'random-house'-jokers-on-something-important-like
>    -this;-see-webster's-definition-of-'random'-<wink>)-ly y'rs,
>
> =g2
> *40 cents

Screw *all* that hifaultin stuff -- I used Microsoft Bookshelf.  That's the
definitive reference of the future, as your grandchildren will never know
any other dictionary ever existed <0.9 wink>.

until-then-the-root-word-is-greek-so-it-should-really-be-something-
    like-"zorbalological"?-ly y'rs  - tim






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