Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

Well, at some point we have to be reasonable about these things.  The archives are free and MWDEU is within the means of even a modest pocketbook, but not everybody has the other resources.  I myself am not quite prepared to spend $500 for DARE or $600 for Green's, excellent though I'm sure both are.

Also, although I did spring for two copies of the Yale Book of Quotations, other physical resources are either at home or at the office, not both.


John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Arnold Zwicky
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:35 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

On May 1, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

> ADS-L should issue a keyboard macro for "I should have checked
> OED/HDAS/the archives".

add: DARE, MWDEU, Green's Dictionary

and, for that matter, other less specialized dictionaries.  "ka-ching" is in both NOAD and AHD.

arnold

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