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Hahaha good edit. Could you imagine?!
(Checks for myself)
...Oh...
It's sensible that maintaining a current up to date dictionary is worthy of compensation, but I think the tragedy is that such endeavors as "maintaining current information on human language" aren't just publicly funded, so here they are panhandling for "Dictionary plus" lol.
The OED has been like this for at least 15 years (possibly longer but that’s when I first encountered it). So I wouldn’t consider this an appropriate example of the enshittification that’s been taking place of late.
Ooh I didn't realize that, I was just Googling -oidal & this was the first result
I believe it has charged a fee from the day they first offered the dictionary for online use.
I'm surprised people still use commercial dictionaries when Wiktionary exists. Is there a reason more people don't use it?
Fwiw, this is the first time I've heard of Wiktionary
Okay, that's probably the reason then.
The OED goes very in-depth into etymology in the way other English dictionaries do not. It's the size of an encyclopedia. This is the print version of the second edition, which has been supplemented several times since:
As far as I know the OED is a very specific dictionary that's way beyond what most people need and mostly for people dealing with language in their work. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ would be the more personal variant from what I've heard.
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