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Ah, I haven't ever browsed onelook to browse their sources, tsuwm. Will do so right now to check for Brainy.
Edit: Well, no listing yet on onelook.com of brainydictionary.com...so, I sent onelook an email requesting that this source be added to their over 900 dictionary and lexicon listings. What a good feeling to help make an already great source a little better!
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Kyrielle
A litany beginning with the words.the problem here (as it was with groving) appears to be with the way that Brainy used Webster's 1913. once again, here is the original entry: n. [Cf. F. kyrielle.] A litany beginning with the words. Kyrie eleison." Shipley. most usage of the 1913 hasn't edited the source; Brainy has seemingly taken an unfortunate tack, quitting at the first full stop (which apparently was meant to be a ", in this case). Webster's 1913 Unabr. became public domain in 1988; here is the whole story explaining how that came to be: http://snipurl.com/cpgm. the relationship between the 1913 and the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary is described as "tenuous at best". I'm only carping at this because we rather quickly uncovered two problems with def'ns, a rather critical element of any dictionary. :) -joe ( caveat emptor) friday p.s. - irrespective of edits, I am very circumstpect in using the 1913. here is the best direct link to it. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
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n. [Cf. F. kyrielle.] A litany beginning with the words. Kyrie eleison." Shipley.
Thank you. I thought that might be it, but.
most usage of the 1913 hasn't edited the source; Brainy has seemingly taken an unfortunate tack, quitting at the first full stop (which apparently was meant to be a ", in this case).
Think they'd change their ways if we told 'em this?
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>Think they'd change their ways if we told 'em this?
/answering question with question mode on
think they'd want to edit 109,562 entries?
/answering question with question mode off
-joe (although they could probably just change their algorithm) friday
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That's what I meant, yeah...
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