![]() (Mine was kersey, which was very suitable as I recently went to the Suffolk village of Kersey, whence the word derives, and had dinner in their lovely pub! I simply had to try this function again, so I closed and opened the program and this time got avener. a 'word of the day' that pops up on opening the program.(Oh, how I really do notice now that the print size in my hard copy has shrunk over the years!) (Although I always feel using them is cheating, they could help to enlarge one's knowledge.) advanced search with wildcard facilities.So there goes a dinner party discussion opportunity then. ![]() There is also no preciousness about pronunciation – you're allowed both clematis and clem atis, for example. There are some medical words that I know how to spell, but never know how to pronounce! The first is a pronunciation guide (fairly and randomly given in female and male voices) – those of us who never did get to grips with phonetic symbols will find this a real boon. PronouncementsĪnd the advantages are many over the hard copy. But there is another joy in being able to search quickly and efficiently on a CD, with a desktop icon always ready to hand. I have always enjoyed looking up words in those soft precious pages, lovingly giving up of their information and probably still will. My own SOED hardcopy is the second edition: 1934, reprinted 1970 – still really useful when the computer is not up and running – but I really was due for an update. I was sent the CD of the SOED (having glanced enviously through the hard copy that was offered as a raffle prize at the SfEP conference) and was eager to load it up to see how far dictionary CDs had come these days.
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