I have trained myself (mostly) to only click on the window bar of the application when trying to move it forward. To work around this, be sure only click on the edge of the application or where no words appear in the main section of the window. If you click onto the main portion of the window (even when the OED application is not active), the app will interpret that click as a request to lookup the word which was clicked. If you are expecting to click into the main portion of the window, select some text, and copy it, then you are in for a surprise, because it will almost certainly not work as you expect. (Help can be accessed from within the application, which will open several exceedingly plain HTML files with absolutely no images or other frivolities which might guide you through the application.) There is no Edit menu with the usual Copy and Paste commands, which may prepare you for news that pasting into the application works strangely, but not nearly as strangely as copying out of the application. In fact, there are no menu items at all except Services (which don't work), Hide, and Quit. Not long after starting the app, I looked for preferences. Unfortunately, that is only the sad beginning to the "user interface" of the OED on the Mac. Have you ever seen an uglier icon? Have you ever seen an uglier icon for a $300 Mac application? If there was a way to emphasize the quotation marks around the word "native" I would do so, because as I quickly learned, the OED puts the "ugly" in "butt ugly Windows port." The image you see above is the application icon. The CD-ROM lists itself as "version 4" but this is the first version to be "native" on the Mac. (I should probably note that Mac OS X comes with the "New Oxford American Dictionary" which is not the same thing as the OED, despite the similar sounding name.) Thousand upon thousands of changing meanings are followed throughout history, illustrated by 85,000 quotations from 7,000 authors.You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. The Shorter, however, offers something that no competitor can match: the historical, literary approach made justly famous by the OED. Each entry offers everything you would expect from a leading unabridged dictionary: it identifies each word's various meanings, origins, part of speech, pronunciation, and combinations in which the word is often found, as well as cross-references to related words. Indeed, no other dictionary, apart from the OED itself, comes close to the Shorter's range and depth, offering over 500,000 definitions that cover virtually every word or phrase in use in English-worldwide-since 1700. At one-tenth the size of OED - and a fraction of the price- the Shorter offers one-third the content and the same quality of lexical excellence of its parent dictionary. If the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the mother of all dictionaries, the Shorter is its most accomplished offspring. Here is a new edition of the acclaimed Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the first since 2002, updated, enlarged, and enlivened by new words, new definitions of old words, new illustrative quotations - and a new, fully customizable CD-ROM. Subject Headings: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, English Word, Dictionary Notes Cited By Quotes Book Overview
“ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th edition.” Oxford University Press. ( Shorter OED, 2007) ⇒ Oxford University Press.
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