{"id":1936,"date":"2007-09-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T12:44:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:25:51","slug":"compact-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/compact-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Compact Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classic, Compact OED is a smaller, handy version of what is the best English dictionary, bar none, the famous OED. Because it&#8217;s photo-reduced, it contains the entire OED, all 20 large volumes in one convenient reference (it comes with a reading glass). Aside from saving space on your shelf, it&#8217;s also significantly cheaper. It&#8217;s quite large, but you could definitely fit it in a regular backpack, if you&#8217;re a student or need to transport it (although it is about 10 pounds!). I&#8217;ve been using it for 3 years now, at least twice a week for general queries, as I enjoy discovering and using obscure words and I also often look up words and dive into etymology as part of my Wikipedia editing. For example, recently I used my OED to look up an archaic usage of the word &#8220;quaint&#8221;. Apparently Andrew Marvell&#8217;s &#8220;To His Coy Mistress&#8221; makes use of the old meaning where &#8220;quaint&#8221; also refers to female anatomy. Who knew?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-volume lexicon in one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9605,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}