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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thank you for the correction, but I'm still extremely doubtful that this is a complete unabridged version of the OED. My university library has the OED - it's 20 volumes occupying something like 3m of shelf space. There's no way it could be printed in two volumes, no matter how small the print!
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It's two very big volumes with very small print, as noted above. There was huge excitement when the edition came out, because it was both reasonably affordable and houseable.