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OED in 12 pages


2009
01.21

The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition

According to the OUP: UK General Catalogue, the fourth version of the Oxford English Dictionary CD-ROM will contain a total of twelve — 12 — pages:

Price: £169.57+VAT (Software)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956383-8
Estimated publication date: April 2009
12 pages, NA, 216×138 mm

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Oxford, Pasadena


2005
12.15

The award for best computer-related acronym goes to the Oxford English Dictionary for their new electronic editing system, Pasadena — Perfect All-Singing All-Dancing Editorial and Notation Application. (As reported in the latest issue of the Oxford English Dictionary News.)

And the perennial runner-up lifetime bust is awarded to Macintosh — Most Applications Crash, If Not The Operating System Hangs. (Referring — “mostly” — to the pre–OS X Macs.)

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