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http://www.wordiq.com/books/index.phpthere doesn't seem to be a good index of what's available, but with more than 10,000 books, there should be something worth reading... part of this site: http://www.wordiq.com/which I hadn't run across. is this on your list, Max?
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How cool! Three Wodehouse texts in the top 50!
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A good resource, eta--thank you. I tried the hacker's jargon dictionary just to see, and found these as the first two entries: :abbrev: /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.
:ABEND: [ABnormal END] /ah'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal termination (of software); {crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers but seriously mainly by {code grinder}s. Usually capitalized, but may appear as `abend'. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'.
Took some doing, though: the actual dictionary--well, entries--doesn't begin until page 17.
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