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Thread #132104 Message #2986309
Posted By: mousethief
14-Sep-10 - 01:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Reference Books you OWN and use often
Subject: RE: BS: Reference Books you OWN and use often
OED 20-volume edition. (1988?) Webster's New World College Dictionary
Way down the frequency chart after that, a couple of foreign language dictionaries: Langenscheidt for German, Liddell-Scott for Greek, And a cheap college thing for French. Mostly for the German I look it up online at http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/. Haven't found as useful a French site. I did have occasion to actually look something up in Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley the other day, but that happens once very 5 years at most. And the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is definitely a reference book and not a reading bible.
For reference look-up, the interwebnetspace is definitely taking over from books-on-paper.