[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:23:02 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article
> <d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7975 at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF
> <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> Merriam Webster.
>> 
>> Why not?
>> 
>> What would you recommend?
> 
>    Check again.  Webster came up with a style of dictionary, and just
>    about all publishers use it.
> 
>    On the cover page of the dictionary you can find out who actually
>    published it.  They may not actually be Merriam Webster.  And they
>    are responsible for the content.
> 
>    Sometimes the publisher will include a discussion of what
>    self-proclaimed experts wrote the content.  Sometimes they just hack
>    something togther that they can sell, and the content is amaizingly
>    poor.

I had a stunning example of that a few years ago with an English-German 
dictionary.  It was a recognised brand, but unlike any other English-
German (or German-English) dictionary I have come across, it completely 
omitted the usual indications of which gender nouns take in German.  

Fortunately the sales stuff understood why I wanted the gender 
information and had no hesitation giving me a full refund.

>    And even M-W is wrong sometimes.

A decade or more ago I found so many errors in the online version of M-W  
that I didn't trust it.  That does seem to have improved since.

-- 
Paul Sture