elaby: (Rochester)
elaby ([personal profile] elaby) wrote2009-03-21 06:09 pm
Entry tags:

ILU, OED

I love you, Oxford English Dictionary!

I'm so lucky my wife works at a University and can get me into the OED online. It's so incredibly useful. I'm working on some annotations for [livejournal.com profile] janeturenne's Slasher's Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which is already so darn awesome. I'm doing "The Six Napoleons," and I'm LOVING IT, I tell you. Can I be a professional fan? This is why I went into English Lit in school, by the way, because what I do for fun is try to figure out why such-and-such fictitious character used this phrase instead of that one.

Poor Mr. Rochester never gets his icon used *uses it*

[identity profile] janeturenne.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! Glad you're having fun with it :) Can't wait to see your notes!

By far the worst thing about having graduated from college (and there are many things I miss about college) is being cut off from the online OED. The fact that it's $300 a year for a private subscription is insane. Silly OED.

[identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Holy cow, I'd no idea how much it cost O_O I feel especially grateful now!