What's the best English dictionary, thesaurus, and

>>9907907
Also what's the best app for each?

>>9907907
The Oxford English Dictionary is the only English dictionary (also the best thesaurus). Rhyming dictionaries are for brainlet faggots.

anyone who recommends something other than samuel johnson's original lexicon started with the romans.

>>9908127
This, the OED is so far ahead of every other comparable English dictionary that there's really no contest, although the Penguin one deserves an honorable mention now that it's the only English dictionary in (physical) print that still has etymological entries.

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>>9908750
>it's the only English dictionary in (physical) print that still has etymological entries
>implying

>>9909313
I was of the conviction that the OED had gone out of print and would only be available to the general public with a subscription online now

>>9909318
You can buy the physical 20 volume 2nd edition of the OED on their website for £845.

The 3rd edition, which is still a work in progress and will be for many years to come, is not expected to be released in physical print available to the public

>>9909338
Oh well, Penguin still deserves a mention because it's just one handy volume.

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>>9908127
>Not using Roget's Thesaurus

>>9909486
this its fucckibg godlike mang