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Originally Posted by 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.
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This isn't the OED, but perhaps the Wikitionary with etymology might be of use (
link)?
Once you download the dicthtml-en-en.zip, you'll have to place it in the Kobo/custom-dict folder.
Then when you look up any word, there's going to be a drop down on the dictionary pop-up to switch the dictionary.