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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
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Subject: Re: ``bozo'' -- an etymology
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 13:28:30 EDT
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> scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics
>
> The American Heritage Dictionary is newer and has much greater
> attention to etomology than Webster's.   It has a dictionary 
> of Proto Indo-European in the back and when possible gives
> the original Indo-European word that a word is a reflex of.

I must agree that the American Heritage (AH) is better than
the Webster's (fortunately AH is the ``standard issue'' dictionary
at Amdahl).

Are there any other recommendations for dictionaries out there?
Is the Concise OED a reasably good subset of its parent?  And what
about dictionaries that include the WHOLE language: slang and
obscene words? I have Flexner's ``Dictionary of American Slang''
but it is 20 years old already.

Comments, commments?
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett			...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam

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