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[Frans Suasso]

  Op 17-9-2010 13:37, STEPHEN MARDER schreef:
>>    The 4th edn, as far as I know, was just a reprint of the 3rd, which
>> was a  "ispravlennoe i znachitelʹno dopolnennoe izdanie" edited by Jan
>> Baudouin de Courtenay, i.e. not the same as the 2nd edition. I have
>> never understood  why the 2nd edn is almost always the one which is
>> reprinted, and the one which is found online (but I believe there was
>> 1994 reprint of 4th edn in Moscow). Possibly because it contained
>> netsenzurnye slova? It is quite hard to find and when I last looked it
>> was expensive on the secondhand book market (about £250).
>
> The third edition is available online and can be downloaded (in DjVu format):
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> http://runivers.ru/lib/detail.php?ID=540065
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It took me over 25 years to find an affordable copy (reprint)  of  the 
Dal'/ de Courtenay dictionary.    A few years ago I found   one at  
Kniga.com.: Four volumes Moskva, Olma Press 2001.
It is a reprint  of the third edition. It is in post 1917  orthography  
and does contain the obscenities. Amazon.com offers various editions of 
Dal's dictionnary. a.o. the one I have, for a very easonable price.

The downloadable edition you refer to has the big disadvantage that is 
has  the pre-1917 orhography. For book that is no problem. When you want 
to look up a word in a dictionary, you have to know how it written. You 
have to know e.g. that Mir (village community) and Mir (peace) were  
written differently. I you look up a word that starts with "e", you have 
to know which "e"it was before 1917 and where it stood in the alphabet.

If you want to have a Dal":  Try to find a four volume edition published 
after 2000 in a modern spelling. Many online dictionaries are abridged,  
adapted for children, or you  may face (as I do)
problems wih looking up things because of the order in the old alphabet,


Frans Suasso

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