Fast forward to college, I learned about the Oxford English Dictionary in college. Frankly, it's not the best way to improve one's vocabulary, but it made me feel like a Scripp's kid (if you thought I didn't grow up watching the Bee live on TV and idolizing the spellers, you thought wrong).

Indeed, I was that child who set out to read the dictionary. This feature can be used within the OED CD-ROM itself to look up words in the definition or quotation text System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended) 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended) Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP) 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended.more *The Automatic Look-up feature enables fast access to OED headwords from any Microsoft Office 97 or 2000 application. *A new installation option makes it possible to run the Dictionary from the hard disk Complex search expressions can be built through the use of Boolean operators, case-sensitive searching, exact character searching, restricting searches to previous search results, searching in pronunciations, and an extended range of wildcard options *The powerful Advanced search makes it possible to make use of the full potential of the OED. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 19, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. This new version of The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) on CD-ROM thus offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language.

It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words and traces their usage through 2.5 million illustrative quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources. The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day.

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