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Are they still making them? Dictionaries in a digital world

by Oxford University Press | Aug 24, 2016 | Schools News, Dictionary News, Dictionaries

When I say I make dictionaries for Oxford University Press, people used to say, “Remind me not to play scrabble against you!” Now they say, “Are you still making dictionaries? I just use Google.” It’s true that a number of dictionary...

Fact-check: Why learn content when you can Google it?

by Oxford University Press | Jul 23, 2015 | Higher Education News

You’re sitting at a table over lunch and one friend claims the first computer had less than one KB of memory while the other is certain it had at least one KB of memory. There’s free Wi-Fi available and you have a smart phone. In less than a minute you’ve resolved the...

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