[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #2157 - 20 msgs

[Yuri K]

Hello Brian,

Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 22:40:58 (UTC), you wrote:

BD> -----Original Message-----
BD> From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
BD> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:20 PM
BD> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
BD> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #2157 - 20 msgs


BD> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:16:08PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

>> [0] You weren't referring to that pamphlet put out by Webster & Co. as
>>     "the dictionary", were you?

BD> You are calling a book a foot thick a pamphlet?  At least, that is how
BD> thick my websters is.

 You may not know this, but it's a laughing stock of the whole world.
 "World" is like in "World Series" and then some. So called phonetic
 transcription alone is worth a look by a psychoanalyst.  It was
 probably a creation of a Linux man author in his/her previous
 incarnation. Webster is the least usable and useful of them all.
 The only benefit: it's a cheapo.

 If you hate Oxford, Chambers would be a good choice.

-- 
Best regards,
 Yuri 

''Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as 
you please.'' - Mark Twain