2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the first printing of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COED), and to help celebrate, the kindly folks at Oxford University Press are giving e-Views readers free access to the full OED Online until October 1st.
Just go to: http://www.oed.com/
and use these logins:
Username: libjournalreader
Password: libjournalreader
Enjoy the exquisite verbiage!
and more as it happens,
Cheryl
This will be distracting! (Neat.)
I’ve already found out that “literally” has been used to emphasize figurative expressions since at least 1769. The horrors.