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    <body><![CDATA[The Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, is probably the best reference dictionary in the entire world. I have the 1989 20-volume set and so far have yet come up empty when looking something up, which I do at least once a week. <br/><br/>It is a prized centerpiece of my book collection and I cannot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7703661">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[online edition. brilliant but annoying. surprisingly incomplete. more a catalog of historical usage than strictly a dictionary (pure dictionary: websters international tops). ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The OED rules in the Heavens as the great and powerful god of all English dictionaries.  This is hands down the most complete dictionary of the English Language ever made.]]></body>
    
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