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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I'm impressed.
Would you mind sharing with us how often you use it?
Does compact mean that it is abridged? My impression has been that one of the things that makes the OED the OED is that it is not, and never is, abridged.
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To be honest, I don't use it very often. It's too cumbersome for that. But it's great to be able to fall back on it now and again.
It's called 'Compact' not because it's abridged, but because it's not as large physically as the the full 20-volume set. That's not saying much, though; at 9 original pages (3 x reduced) per physical page, it's still a
huge book...