Quote from: apl68 on May 03, 2024, 08:06:55 AMThe Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester. As much as anything, this is a love letter to the Oxford English Dictionary. The print version of the OED, which I recall using some in grad school, is an awe-inspiring work. Multiple, vast, well-produced volumes, filled with hundreds of thousands of words, each with a painstaking etymology and numerous quotes tracing its assorted definitions and shades of meaning down through the centuries. Though the first edition was not completed until the 1920s, it was in origin a fantastically ambitious Victorian project.
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Quote from: Myword on Today at 10:54:05 AMThose of you who use Word 2019 and newer, which document file do you use for your
papers? A list is offered, including Worddocument, Open XL and many others. What's the difference?
I ask because
I sent a paper to a editor and she said it cpntained garbage encoded nonsense,
using XL. So I had to paste the whole text and send it. Okay for now, she said.
I never saw coded nonsense in my work. I use Word365 new. PC.
Quote from: apl68 on Today at 07:36:22 AMIt's not at all hard to see how a large institution could have a need for chaplains and associations to serve many different faith groups. And yes, the Jewish and Muslim groups have no doubt had a lot to do lately. As long as they're taking care of their people and not getting in each others' face.