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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:52:18 -0500
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- From: "Cora A. Diamond" <cad2m@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: A book from Oxford
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- This is not the place for a review of the newly published Oxford
- Companion to the English Language, but it is not inappropriate to call
- attention to it. All 1200 pages are well in the tradition of Oxford
- Reference books, its production is superb, as Oxford books can be but
- not always are, and it contains in the Editor's Preface this sentence:
- Without its IBM hardware and Nota Bene software, the project
- would, I suspect, have taken twice as long and may never have
- been finished at all.
- Its message to users who despair of getting linked/ms files to work is
- Sursum Corda
-
- Tony Woozley
- cad2m@faraday.clas.virginia.edu
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