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My Dictionary
2006.03.26 9:40

I started using English dictionary when I was fifteen after one of my teachers recommended using it, the name of dictionary I chose was 'Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary Of Current English', also known as OALD. It must be the third edition, which was published in 1974.
At that time it was still too hard for me to understand the contents, but I kept on using it until at age 25.
Again I started using English dictionary at age 27 when I started teaching English in junior high. Obviously I needed to confirm each time what the correct usage of the words were and I did. This was the fourth edition, published in 1989, and still I'm using the one in my study. Since I've been using the same dictionary for more than fifteen years, part of dictionary has been lost already, especially preface and A section, and the last part of the dictionary, appendices or something. So every time I encounter what I can't refer categorically, I feel perplexed, and I feel like purchasing the newest one of OALD. The newest edition is the seventh already. That was published last year -2005.
As a matter of fact, I've got another dictionary in use. That is 'Pocket Oxford Dictionary' also known as POD. I bought it in October, 2002. Entire bindings are already disbanded completely, I need to purchase the one. So I decided to purchase the newest version of OALD and POD.
What I mind is 'do I really need a dictionary?' You see I can look them up in dictionary. com whenever possible. Our computer can tell the meaning and usage whatever. Besides computer can tell up-to-date meaning and usage, dictionary reflects only authoritative usage in particular periods. but that's what I need. Any way I cannot endure using a dictionary whose page starts at 19. Let's buy the one.
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the advantage of books(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.03.26 13:37 (#14996424) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
over electronic versions.. is that they have a memory.the book keeps with it the history of your use - the notes you make in the margin, the pages which have been often consulted and the book falls open on, the incidental records of things that happened to the book, including unfortunately in your case, the loss of pages 1-19.This isn't possible with electronic information - yet.
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Re:the advantage of books(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.26 18:32 (#14997078) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Yeah, I bought the fourth edition in 1989, soon after it was first published. My employer bought me the dictionary in $40. It was covered in leather, so it's a little bit costly. I used it tens of thousands of times to look up words and phrases and that resulted in the loss of 19 pages.
I bought the new dictionary -Collins English Dictionary, second edition 2006, this is the newest version in every sense of the word. The name of this edition is unique -it's 'solutions edition'. This is slightly over 1000 pages, brighter paper, lighter weight, with concise etymological descriptions, it must come in handy. Still wait to see whether it's really useful though.
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