i’ve never been on this site before – that is to say, you don’t even get like a couple free words

what a joke

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    This is why you should instead use Wiktionary and donate your child’s entire college fund to the Wikimedia foundation

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    There are plenty of other dictionaries and some of them are made of something called paper.

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    One way to get access to OED ODE without paying a cent is by using kindle app. When you highlight an English word, if will open the dict. You can search for any word from there.

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    FYI Running Ublock Origin is enough to grant access to this dictionary, among others. At least seems to work for me without any paywalls (unless its a geoblock? I’m looking at it from the Nordics).

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    It works OK for me, but I’m in the UK so maybe it’s subscription only for foreigners.

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    If the dictionary was free for all, how do you, OP, envision it would finance itself.

    Specifically: hosting, web design, keeping the dictionary up to date (new words, linguistic shift, new entomological research etc).

    Please, elaborate. Until then you’re a choosing beggar.