Dictionary goes online

Oxford - All 60 million words of the Oxford English Dictionary, regarded as the supreme authority on the English language, go…

Oxford - All 60 million words of the Oxford English Dictionary, regarded as the supreme authority on the English language, go online tomorrow. It will instantly become the Internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book, dwarfing the 44-million-word Encyclopaedia Britannica, which opened its own Website last year.

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