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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Excellent news.
"the OED Online (along with a range of other Oxford Online resources) will soon be available in almost all public libraries in England as a result of a landmark agreement between Oxford University Press and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council"
Brilliant - now i don't have to fork out ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
now there's a profession that sounds like fun...It may be interesting to note the following-
trivia - plural of trivium which is -
"The lower division of the seven liberal arts in medieval schools, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric"
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
(filched from furry folks..)
so what's in a word?
7 definitions for liberal:
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Liberal \Lib"er*al\ (l[i^]b"[~e]r*al), a. [F. lib['e]ral, L.
liberalis, from liber free; perh. akin to libet, lubet, it
pleases, E. lief. Cf. Deliver.]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
prej·u·dice :
noun.
1.
a. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
b. A preconceived preference or idea.
2. The act or ...
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