The Washington Post
In what ABC's
Nightline would call "A sign of the times," the Oxford English Dictionary could be heading for extinction. Yes, as
The Washington Post reports, the obvious culprit is the Web, which Oxford University Press now says has made the future of the printed dictionary "uncertain." The digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers, who pay $295 a year for the service in the U.S., according to WaPo. By contrast, the current printed edition -- a 20-volume, 750-pound ($1,165) set published in 1989 -- has sold just …