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1. #SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE FOR FREE#
2. #SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE PRO#
3. #SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE SOFTWARE#
4. #SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE PLUS#

So, because the unabridged is too hard to access, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is the next best thing. But you still have to be online and it would be a pain to login each time you wanted to look up a word.

#SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE FOR FREE#

At any rate, the Greater Victoria Public Library subscribes to it and you can access it FOR FREE by logging in with your library card. And you have to be online to use it, which is a turn off. You can subscribe to the online version for $295 USD a year. That’s sort of disappointing the unabridged OED isn’t available for download. It surprises me that Oxford would even continue to sell such stone age software. Those are the Macs from 10+ years ago! Not about to drop $375 for a dictionary that probably won’t work and doesn’t appear to be supported. The cd-rom version apparently is designed for Macs with a PowerPC processor. Most of the links to it from Oxford’s own site are broken. There’s a cd-rom version for $295 USD (about $375 CAD). But doesn’t the OED come in an app? Not that I can find. what’s happened between 19), you have to get all the supplemental volumes. Sounds good! Now, you may be asking: why not just get the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary (OED)? Well, amazon.ca is selling the 20 volume set for $1447.04. * ‘Word of the day’ section to help expand your vocabulary every day * ‘Recent’ list to help you easily review looked-up words * ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary: * Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results * An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ (‘*’ or ‘?’) to replace a letter or entire parts of a word * Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases * Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type The integrated search tools activate automatically the moment you start typing:

SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words using a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.

This is a mobile dictionary with content from Oxford University Press and advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems. It has been fully updated with 2,500 new words and meanings based on ongoing research at Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus. With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean.

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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700. Here’s the online blurb from the Apple App Store: Description I wonder why Oxford couldn’t do it in house?

#SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE SOFTWARE#

It must be licensed out to WordWebSoftware, who put it together and copyrighted the software part of it in 2011. This is the sixth edition, version 2.4, Oxford copyright 2007, updated February 28, 2015. The app was downloaded from the Apple app store for $28.99 CAD. It has: the search led to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. I was hoping that in the 2010s that has changed. In the 90s and even 2000s the reference dictionaries were always physical. I thought about getting a physical dictionary, but if a suitable app could be found, that would be preferable. As the stock dictionary is The New Oxford American Dictionary and I use British spellings, I was also looking for a specifically British dictionary. Hyphenation is like a double-breasted suit: out of fashion. Hyphenation is rapidly evolving: it’s no longer ice-cream but ice cream.

I also wanted a reference dictionary to keep spellings and hyphenations consistent.

#SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE PRO#

The dictionary that came with the laptop (MacBook Pro running OS 10.10.5) is good, but I wanted another one for a second opinion. Now that the rewriting and editing process has started, it was high time for new dictionary.