Re: OED

  • From: Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:36:26 +0000


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Thesaurus doesn't strike to the heart of what words mean

It's a dictionary of senses rather than of words. If you know what you mean, it will find the word that eluded you. For example, I have the sense 'country dweller' and I want a collective noun. HTOED allows me to find 'the ruralty'. It's a different way of thinking and is very cumbersome with the book, but the computerized version makes it reasonably easy.

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