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John Freeman wrote: > > But John, it took Victor nearly twenty years as it was, and he died before > it was published! Collecting and editing material, even from printed > sources, is extremely time-consuming, and would have meant employing an army > of county experts. Now if we lived in Scandinavia..... But that just shows (with the benefit of hindsight) that the original premise - that the Cambridge Dictionary should be based on the 1983 OS Road Atlas of Great Britain - was wrong. But Victor must have had some inkling of that himself not long after starting work. John Briggs