try www.m-w.com (free)
Or buy a new dictionary on CD rom (costly!)
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:40:56 +0200 (CEST), Carlos E. R.
The Wednesday 2004-09-29 at 16:50 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
But I don't see any mention of a MIT dictionary :-? The 1913 webster is prety old and somewhat useless.
I think you have to "parenthesize" the phrase "MIT dictionary server" as "MIT (dictionary server)", not "(MIT dictionary) server".
I couldn't find much on Google about "the MIT dictionary server." My guess is that it's a historical reference perhaps more relevant to the author of the program than most people now using it. Perhaps the (or one of the) first implementations of the dictionary protocol were made at MIT?
Ah, crumbs.
Pity :-}
By the way, there's a pretty sizeable chunk of English that has remained unchanged between 1913 and now!
I know, I know - that unchanged part is not a great problem, the rest is. No computerese references, for example. And carrying around something like 10 kilograms of the current webster printed in thin paper is... tiring. This is the computer age! Me, I want an instant dictionary, for free if possible ;-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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