Re: Plausibility Check


Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Do I have to tell you AGAIN that the electronic OED can be searched by
date?

So do it.

I happen not to have access to the electronic OED. Like many things
from OUP, it is seriously overpriced. You, however, since you are
frequently at your university library, do have access.

You spoke of "even readily verfiable facts." Not so readily
verifiable, then? At the university library I have access to
the OED in print.

Buy me a subscription to the online OED (which I basically have no use
for, since I own the Compact Editions of the original and of the
4-volume Supplement equivalent to the Second Edition), or buy me a copy
of the CD-ROM (its list price was $1000 when it was published a few
years ago).

I should buy you a subscription, after all your accusations
and invectives? I don't need that software, as I get my
information from various reliable sources, for example
from radio programs: English in Shakespeare's time
had 200,000 words, information technology alone created
200,000 new English words. You called this quote a lie
about an even readily verifiable fact. So tell me the fact,
or apologize for having me accused of lying about the
number of English words in the time of William Shakspere
Shagspere Shakspeare Shaxpur Chacksper Schakespeire
Chacsper Shexpere Shexpire Shakispere Shaxberd
Shakaspeare Shaykspere Schakespayr Shakespeare.

Franz Gnaedinger

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