Favoured etymological sources: Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's New World: Third Edition. Sources for usage (pronunciation, spelling or pluralisation): The previous, as well as American Heritage Dictionary: Fourth Edition, Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language: 1960, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Primary source for phonology: Kenstowicz's Phonology in Generative Grammar: 1994.
Just wait until you find out how easy those kind of screen shots are to make on a mac.
ReplyDeleteOr, god forbid, linux.
ReplyDeleteWhich way have you decided to go, by the way?
Whichever it is, please do not emulate Greg Laden and turn your blog into an extended hard sell for it.
ReplyDeletePlease.
It's Mac for me now. And I'm happy with it.
ReplyDeleteBut I had to put down my Linux machine today and it was sad.
No hard sell here. I'm no evangelist.