hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) (01/15/91)
I was browsing in the bookstore today and discovered that there is a Macintosh version of the American Heritage Dictionary, complete with a thesaurus. Does anybody have any experience with this? Is it any good? Is it worth the 3MB of disk space that it occupies? Hal Perkins hal@cs.cornell.edu Cornell CS
clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) (01/15/91)
In article <50722@cornell.UUCP> hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes: >I was browsing in the bookstore today and discovered that there is a >Macintosh version of the American Heritage Dictionary, complete with a >thesaurus. Does anybody have any experience with this? Is it any >good? Is it worth the 3MB of disk space that it occupies? > I second the motion for feedback from anyone who's used it. The American Heritage is one of my favorite dictionaries--the Usage Notes alone are worth the price of admission for me, as I like to use the word with just the right connotation, and the book is full of notes comparing flavors A through Z of a word and distinguishing the nuances. I haven't had any luck finding it through the big Mac mail-order houses, so far. Hal, maybe if you and I start a phone-in campaign...? --K -- ........................................................................... : Kathy Strong : "Try our Hubble-Rita: just one shot, : : (Clouds moving slowly) : and everything's blurry" : : clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : --El Arroyo : :..........................................................................:
costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello) (01/16/91)
In article <50722@cornell.UUCP>, hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes: > > I was browsing in the bookstore today and discovered that there is a > Macintosh version of the American Heritage Dictionary, complete with a > thesaurus. Does anybody have any experience with this? Is it any > good? Is it worth the 3MB of disk space that it occupies? > I'd say yes. It's a great dictionary, it supports wildcard searches and anagrams, plus it has etymologies, which I haven't seen elsewhere. Within a definition window, double clicking on a word defines that word, etc. Check it out. ==>MC/BCS*Mac costello@world.std.com ==>617-631-8188