Dictionary of dictionaries

[Benjamin Barrett]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Paul Frank
>
> > The even larger fifteenth-century Yongle
> > Dadian, which originally
> > contained 22,937 titles in 11,095 handwritten folio volumes, was
> > destroyed,
> > according to Chinese accounts, by European barbarians
> > during the Siege of
> > Peking in 1900.

> Oops. I meant to write "was destroyed by European
> barbarians..."

What is it that you are correcting? Do you mean that "according to
Chinese accounts" shouldn't have been in your original post?

Benjamin Barrett
Tukwila, USA