Subscribing to the OED online costs £195/year. Does anybody actually pay that? Wouldn’t they make far more cash if they took it down to £20 or so, the price that people like me (language-obsessed, not millionaires) would pay?
The first volume of the OED was published in 1888. Surely that means it’s out of copyright by now? And if so, why hasn’t Project Gutenberg got at it?
What do those of you outside of universities use instead of the OED?
Edit
scans are online at the Internet Archive. How fantastic is that? Now, if I can just find a way of shunting them into a usable format…
*plots*