Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: ``bozo'' -- an etymology Message-ID: <352@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 13:28:30 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.352 Posted: Mon Oct 8 13:28:30 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 03:48:25 EDT References: <315@amdahl.UUCP> <175@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 22 > 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 [ Only these only are only my only opinions, only. Thank you. ]