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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:12:39 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:
-
- > WIMP! Real Webster-users read hard copy. On-line's for people who can'
- >t
- > use an index.<grin> Just kidding. No access to OED online then? Oh we
- >ll,
- > too bad.
- >
- >Wimp! Real OED users read hard copy *without* a magnifying glass.
- >
- So who needs a magnifying glass? So who owns one to use?:-) Ever see the
- OED miniature version? It's a single volume, and you need an x10 glass to
- read the thing.... Or at least they sell one with it. Real wimps can only
- handle one volume of the OED at a time.
-
- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
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