[LordP]

Grrrr.

Having read through this thread carefully, and keeping in mind what happened to John Hopper, I decided to update my dictionary to the 2019 version, and now I don't show any etymology for the words.

Stupidly, I did not back up what I had, which worked very well aside from a mildly annoying "did not find 'annoying'" followed by the actual definition of annoying - that's why I was updating.

Can anyone point to the real OED that shows the etymology? The 2019 did not work for me, nor did the other 6,000 I downloaded and tried.

I tried rebooting and also turning the dictionary off and back on. No joy.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I drove the thing nuts and after completely getting locked up, I reset the damn device. All books are gone.

LOL. I don't know which dictionary I have, but I'm still getting that:

"Your search for "wherever" did not match any words in the dictionary. The closest match was "wherever"." And of course, the definition was just below that little declaration.

LMAO

Strangely enough, today is my birthday (75) - I think the universe is trying to tell me something.

EDIT: I just saw that I have the 2024 version of the dictionary.