@Tonepoet By the way, the unabridged costs about the same as SOED on bookdepository.com

@JasonBourne I believe Merriam-Webster's comes with a C.D., and a one year subscription to their website, which might be why.

@Tonepoet I wasn't trying to compare the value for money though, just telling you a point. I prefer to get the version without the CD, and I don't really need the subscription.

@Robusto the Anisakis-Industrial complex is colluding with medical science journalism to... I don't know... gouge with antihelmintics?

It's exactly things like that that drove the October revolution.

@Tonepoet The Compact OED comes with a magnifying glass and OCD to appreciate it all.

@Tonepoet A book like 'Sketches by Boz' better have pictures in it. Or links to the TV special

@JasonBourne Wait... is that a word? what is it supposed to mean?

@Mitch OCD? LOL.

@Mitch Forbearance in the face of suffering.

@englishstudent No. It's funny cause the expectation is that most people work M-F 9-5, and starting the weeks work at 4 on a Friday means that I have 1 hr to do a weeks worth of work.

all fun drained out of it

@JasonBourne We just need to channel our inner compunction to such things to useful tasks.

@JasonBourne that's not 'equanimity'?

@Mitch Equanimity has a different meaning. One is long, one is equal, aha!

wow. I had no idea. I thought I had at least seen all words.

sometimes I see really popular ELU questions pop up years later that I know I'm seeing for the first time, but somehow I missed the first time round.

but also I could be losing memory.

I also have the same feeling about seeing something for the first time and it looks interesting and I'm reading it and thinking I would have answered and I go through the answers and look here, here's an interesting answer I totally agree with. and is actually quite insightful and says even more then I would have said, pointing out special nuances that are really helpful that I wouldn't have thought of and... oh... I wrote that answer.

I guess it would be more interesting if I thought what a stupid answer.

There's at least one. =P

There's an Illustrations credit suggesting there are more too, although unless George Cruikshank's middle name is "Boz" then, 'tis a total scam! <_<

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