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I love dictionaries. I can spend hours looking up one word, because I'll get distracted by other words and pictures (depending on the edition). The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the best dictionaries for this kind of word browsing. By including a word's history as well as key quotes using the words, it's far more than just a way to look up word meanings. It's entertaining, educational, informative, and enlightening. I just wish I could afford to own a set of my own.
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The Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volume Set) by John Simpson and Edmund S. Weiner
Taminar, October 29, 2010
I love dictionaries. I can spend hours looking up one word, because I'll get distracted by other words and pictures (depending on the edition). The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the best dictionaries for this kind of word browsing. By including a word's history as well as key quotes using the words, it's far more than just a way to look up word meanings. It's entertaining, educational, informative, and enlightening. I just wish I could afford to own a set of my own.