Shane Martin Coughlan coughlan@fsfeurope.org wrote:
I suggest the Oxford. The compact has a simple on-line definition:
The OED is frequently too prescriptive and conservative IMO, documeting a form of English not even spoken by people like me who are from fairly near Oxford. Do not believe much of what you read in it as uncontroversial - except that if something is labelled "archaic" even in the OED, then it probably is. The old Collins Concise was a far better dictionary but it's gone downhill lately.
Are we utterly OT yet?
Regards,