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>Wiktionary reuses OED content? Not reuses wholesale, but cites as a source of information. [Which is what you want, right?]
by jan_Inkepa 5y ago
>Wiktionary reuses OED content?
Not reuses wholesale, but cites as a source of information. [Which is what you want, right?]
- wolverine876 5y ago> Not reuses wholesale, but cites as a source of information. [Which is what you want, right?] Yes! Thanks. As an aside: I splurged on an OED subscription, which isn't cheap (they had a sale recently, maybe still going on, but usually it's something like $300/yr). If you care about concepts and ideas, I can't recommend it enough: It's a dictionary of every concept to which anyone has ever assigned a word (or term) in English, and in minutes you can see the concept from every perspective it's been seen, in every time and place, and the OED bring that together with the primary sources - the actual (brief) quotes where the person introduced the term. IME, it's also the best place to start for scientific and mathematical terms. If you look up "relativity" you get original quotes from Maxwell, Poincare, Einstein, etc., as well as several paragraphs succinctly and clearly defining the Special Theory, General Theory, etc.
- jan_Inkepa 5y agoAgreed; from my time with using it in University OED's early usage sources are A+++. Definitely blows wiktionary's out of the water (in as much as you can blow something out of the water that doesn't exist to begin with).