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wyclif on Sept 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are Dictionaries Obsolete in Age of Google?

Noah Webster's 1828 or 1913 edition. Nothing else really compares here; in that time America was in many ways a more literate nation.

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters

Also the OED on CD, I wish somebody would make the OED web-friendly.

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