Chambers 2014

[vetuste_ennemi]

Only £25.23 from wordery.com. And free delivery Just got mine (although I paid £1.95 for next day delivery). Less than half the Amazon price!.

[Buenchico]

This seems a good place to mention another bargain that many people seem unaware of:

Full access to the OED's online dictionary costs £215 per year if you take out a personal subscription but you can use the site for free simply by entering the number on your UK public library membership card (omitting any gaps in it) here:
http://www.oed.com/loginpage

[vetuste_ennemi]

There's a lot more online content available using the library card, Buenchico, as you're probably aware.
I'd never heard of wordery. I was going to get the new Chambers from Amazon, which I've been using for years for all book purchases (Kindle and hard copy) - admittedly with some degree of guilt because of the UK tax issue. But Amazon was quoting £56 or more plus P&P, so I started looking around.

[roslyn251254]

Are the "missing words" back in yet?

[Mamyalynne]

Not sure if they have done a reprint yet, but they did put up a list of the words 'lost'from the 12th edition.


http://www.chambers.co.uk/downloads/Chambers%20Missing%20Words.pdf

[roslyn251254]

yes I've seen the list from a link on crossword forum - quite a good read!!?

[Mamyalynne]

Absolutely some good ones there!

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Are the "missing words" back in yet?".
No, they're not, Roslyn.

[roslyn251254]

Thanks - I'll wait a while then

[vetuste_ennemi]

I'm whole! Just printed off the link. Thanks, MamyaLynne.
Anybody know how the words got lost?

[jim360]

The missing words were the ones that were highlighted as "interesting" in Chambers 2011, I think. And apparently the feedback was along the lines of "don't tell us which words to find interesting, please." So an instruction went out for the 2014 to "take the grey words out".

This was, apparently, taken literally, rather than just removing the grey background...

[vetuste_ennemi]

That explanation is so dotty that it's just got to be true, Jim.