FREE OED.

January 6, 2011 by 19 Comments

For a month, anyway. They’re having a free trial of OED Online through February 5; login with “trynewoed”/”trynewoed.” Hat tip to Ben Zimmer.

Comments

  1. Laura Brown says
    January 6, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    I’m embarrassed to say I spent a couple of minutes thinking “trynewoed” was a Welsh word.

  2. AJP "Dick" O'Braz says
    January 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    No dictionary entries found for ‘trynewoed’.
    I took the tour. It’s fantastic, I could really get used to it. Too bad it’s $300 a year.

  3. http://grumbleby.blogspot.com/ says
    January 6, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    Hey, Porky, that’s not even a dollar a day ! I bet you spend much more than that each year on goat polish.

  4. Grumbly Stu says
    January 6, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Damn, I got my entry fields mixed up.

  5. dearieme says
    January 6, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    Is “goat polish” like “dog latin”?

  6. Grumbly Stu says
    January 6, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Yes. Both are artefacts created to improve the appearance and knowledge of animals, bringing them up to scratch. Of course some already can.

  7. AJP Crown says
    January 6, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    Goat Polish? I only just learnt “Dikobraz”.

  8. Nicholas Sanders says
    January 6, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    For those who don’t already know, it is possible to access the OED online if you are a member of a library that subscribes to it. I have only to enter my user card number and it’s available anytime…

  9. Mark says
    January 7, 2011 at 6:16 am

    Further to Nicholas’s post, most UK public libraries are OED subscribers. I can’t express how happy I was when I found out about that.

  10. MMcM says
    January 7, 2011 at 6:49 am

    My library’s proxy has not been updated to the new site yet. So this is welcome while they work that out.

  11. Michael says
    January 7, 2011 at 7:06 am

    Thank you so much for posting that information!
    This ist great! And yes: “Too bad it’s $300 a year.”

  12. AJP Crown says
    January 8, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Language, did you finish your Iranian oppgave yet?

  13. bulbul says
    January 8, 2011 at 10:04 am

    I’m guessing the answer to AJP’s last question is ‘no’. Poor hat, must be one tough summbich.

  14. language hat says
    January 8, 2011 at 10:53 am

    Yes! I finally finished it and turned it in Thursday night, and was so worn out I basically lay around all day reading Victor Serge. Thanks for asking!

  15. AJP "Porky" O'Braz says
    January 8, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    Now you should have your Christmas holiday.

  16. Graham Asher says
    January 10, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    +1 to Nicholas and Mark about UK public library subscriptions. Mine also gets me into the Dictionary of National Biography, another excellent resource.

  17. mollymooly says
    January 10, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    The old interface allowed you to search by pronunciation; I can’t see how to do that via the new one.

  18. Isaac Rabinovitch says
    January 11, 2011 at 3:33 am

    Depending on where you live, you can probably get OED access for free. Just find a public library with an institutional subscription. (Easy to do with Google.) It doesn’t have to be your local library — most will issue cards to any state resident.

  19. AJP The Cat says
    January 11, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    The problem is that many of us don’t live in English-speaking countries, and our libraries are less inclined to take out subscriptions to the OED.

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