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Martin writes:
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| | The version of the Larousse Francaise I saw in the Sorbonne was about
| | the size of the Shorter Oxford. If OUP weren't such idiots, I and
| | lots of other people would buy CD-ROMs of the OED. I haven't got the
| | space for the paper version.
| |
| | Why? Is it a king's ransom?
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| Nah, but it's got an utterly ghastly interface that doesn't allow
| the user to do anything like search it, and runs only under an
| operating system that is equally bad.
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| The copy I had that came from a market in Oman only ran with Win95.

Oh, man!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.