Here's a link to an article from today's Baltimore Sun, no doubt syndicated elsewhere, about a Cornell professor's data-mining tool. Sounds like it would be of...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Mar 7, 2003 2:18 pm
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Hello. I would like suggestions from members about where to sell some old dictionaries and encyclopedia sets. The used book venues in Connecticut are not...
Four possibilities come to mind.d 1) Rulon-Miller Books, advertised in the DSNA Newsletter, with address, website, and e-mail adress <rulon@...>. 2)...
Edward Gates
edwardgates@...
Mar 17, 2003 4:43 pm
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Here is my list, in case anyone is interested: American College Dictionary, C. Barnhart, Harper & Bros, 1950 American Heritage Dictionary of the English...
Mark M's comment below reminded me of a peculiar (to me) pron I hear here in New England -- the word is permittee, which is used on signs on bars and ...
If I may add another title (without prejudice to Barbara Ann Kipfer's list): FOR SALE: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition, two volumes in mint...
Thomas M. Paikeday
t.paikeday@...
Mar 27, 2003 7:41 pm
289
Hi Erin, I don't remember contacting you last year about the following ad I am considering placing in the MLA Job Information List. I thought Verbatim might be...
Thomas M. Paikeday
t.paikeday@...
Mar 31, 2003 9:01 pm
290
Hi Erin, I don't remember contacting you last year about the following ad I am considering placing in the MLA Job Information List. I thought Verbatim might be...
Thomas M. Paikeday
t.paikeday@...
Mar 31, 2003 10:38 pm
291
Geoffrey York has another article in today's Globe and Mail detailing the worsening tribulations experienced by "unilaterals": ...
Paul McFedries
mailinglists@...
Apr 1, 2003 1:33 pm
292
KwicOnGoogle: http://163.136.182.112/xyz01/ Paul http://www.wordspy.com/...
Paul McFedries
mailinglists@...
Apr 3, 2003 12:11 pm
293
What criterion should one use to determine if one is actually dead or not? I don't want to drag this low-traffic group into a discussion of the war; I'm asking...
... What if there is no corpse? If what is being reported is true -- that the building was blown to dust -- at what point do we take it to be fact? When the US...
Well, aside from Chevy Chase and SNL having fun some years back with the passing of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, I cannot think of another one recently. It...
I agree with Frank that you have to leave it as an open date. That's one of those things with reference publishing. Even if a person is terminally ill at the...
Victoria Neufeldt
v.neufeldt@...
Apr 8, 2003 6:25 pm
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... In my case, it's just a reprint of a minor title, and can just easily wait till the next printing after that, but it's something I've never had to think...
In the book "The Man Who Deciphered Linear B", I saw the word "ethnica" used to describe the native of a land, like American for America, Dane for Denmark. I...
Fred's discovery of bakery in Washington is a marvelous antedating (see below), but from the context it is clear that it is by no means the first-ever...
"Ethnica" is the plural of Latin "ethnica." If you do a Google search on "ethnicum" you will get a lot of links referring to uses of the word for an ethnic...
Edward Gates
edwardgates@...
Apr 18, 2003 5:00 pm
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You can see it at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=12570&item=3514537043&rd=1....
Thought it was sold -- but it is still here. Listed it on eBay for US only, then someone bought it from South Korea. It would cost more to ship than the...
Thought it was sold -- but it is still here. Listed it on eBay for US only, then someone bought it from South Korea. It would cost more to ship than the...
Hey, I just called and got a room -- the 28th is the day that they release those rooms if there's a demand for them. They still might have more.... -- Steve...
Please excuse the spam. The Oxford English Dictionary is having a special offer for individual subscriptions to OED Online. Members of the DSNA can buy...
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