[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #2157 - 20 msgs

[Lionel Peterson]

Compared to the Full OED, it *is* a pamphlet...

Full OED is a number of volumes, or VERY LARGE book full of VERY TINY
type, with included magnifying glass...

Lionel

--- Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:16:08PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> > [0] You weren't referring to that pamphlet put out by Webster & Co.
> > as "the dictionary", were you?
> 
> You are calling a book a foot thick a pamphlet?  At least, that is
> how thick my websters is.


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Lionel

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