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posted by Zed on June 10 2009 23:06

It was just two months ago I was talking about how great the American Heritage dictionary at Bartleby.com was. No more.

Due to financial and usage considerations the reference works licensed from Columbia University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have been removed as of June 2009.

The consolation is that you can look up the notes indexes from the Internet Archive:

and then look those words up at dictionary.com whose results include the full American Heritage entries, including the notes.

There doesn't seem to be a way to get to the Indo-European roots appendix.

However, affixes.org, is a great consolation -- a guide to Greek and Latin roots, on online version of Ologies and Isms by the World Wide Word's Michael Quinion.

Wonder how obnoxious it would be to actually buy the electronic AHD.

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