>az writes:
>
>A 'plain text' edition should not be taken as a licence for
>indolence, but rather an invitation to discovery. Are we
>forestalling discovery?
Yes, in some cases, we are. Many of my colleagues give their students
hundreds of pages of secondary material to read, and no incentive to
do their own primary or even secondary research.
And the OED is online.
Bill
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