It's sensible that maintaining a current up to date dictionary is worthy of compensation, but I think the tragedy is that such endeavors as "maintaining current information on human language" aren't just publicly funded, so here they are panhandling for "Dictionary plus" lol.

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The OED has been like this for at least 15 years (possibly longer but that’s when I first encountered it). So I wouldn’t consider this an appropriate example of the enshittification that’s been taking place of late.

[–] TheWizardOfLimes@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

Ooh I didn't realize that, I was just Googling -oidal & this was the first result

[–] danielf@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised people still use commercial dictionaries when Wiktionary exists. Is there a reason more people don't use it?

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw, this is the first time I've heard of Wiktionary

[–] danielf@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago

Okay, that's probably the reason then.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

As far as I know the OED is a very specific dictionary that's way beyond what most people need and mostly for people dealing with language in their work. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ would be the more personal variant from what I've heard.

[–] rabiddolphin@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

thefreedictionary.com