Drag and Drop in Calc

[jgd]

Thanks

Does SOED mean Short Oxford English Dictionary?
Oxford vs Cambridge

Jacqueline

[yoxi]

Oxford English Dictionary - over 600,000 words, 2.5 million references; 20 volumes, or 1 volume with magnifying glass (sans blague!)

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - 600,000 words, 85,000 references; 2 volumes

I have the latter on CD-ROM, which in the 6th edition is finally mac-friendly (though with a fairly ugly flash interface).

The difference between these dictionaries and their standard one-volume ones is that the small ones are mainly about latest usage (i.e. what a word meant when it was last in popular use), whereas the big ones are for reference to how and when a word's usage has shifted over the centuries, so contain quotes for reference (and have a lot more head-words than the small ones!).

[jgd]

Thanks. The "magnifying glass" is "magnifique"

Jacqueline

[yoxi]

on a besoin de la molette ici, un peu...

[jgd]

[yoxi]

J'essayais un calembour, tu vois - pour moi, une molette, c'est "a focus knob", par example; je voulais dire que nous avions perdu le fil en discutant des langues, des loupes, et nous avions besoin de focaliser, n'est pas?

[Samwise]

Tu as sans doute une souris Apple ancienne génération qui, contrairement à une Mighty Mouse, ne dispose pas d'une molette (scroll wheel)

[jgd]

Non, j'ai une Mighty Mouse (d'ailleurs le clic droit m'énerve. Je sais, je peux le désactiver, mais bon ).

But for me the "focus knob" is "le bouton de la souris". Is it really "une molette" ?

Je ne savais même plus quel était le sujet de ce fil de discussion

Still asleep.

Jacqueline