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Monday, August 30, 2010

Internet kills print dictionary?

The digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers in the U.S. Officials of Oxford University Press say the current printed edition (a 20-volume set has 291,500 entries) has sold about 30,000 copies.

More:
Most Americans are familiar with a dictionary first published in 1828 by
Noah Webster.

The
longest word in most English language dictionaries has to do with a lung condition.

The word believed to be the longest in the English language contains
1,913 letters.

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