grapevine (quoting from "jarhead")

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:08:07PM -0500, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
> And as the Oxford policy about online/electronic access has come up, does
> anyone have the least idea just what the expletive deleted is happening
> about _The Historical Thesaurus of English_?  Now that it's finally out, it
> not only doesn't seem to be available online, but isn't even available in
> *any electronic (searchable) form.  Or have I missed something?  And as to
> the price currently put on the hardcopy version ...

Patience, grasshopper ;-)

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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