Minor triumph!

[aliothsan]

My literature prof is a fan of looking up words in the dictionary and citing their definitions in papers. I think it's rather silly, but oh well. So I looked up "vermin" and "monster" using the oed command on Athena (MIT's Unix-like system)... and then wondered how to cite it. There are accepted citation formats for print dictionaries and online

Comments

[sneswhiz]

For what it's worth, the source is http://dictionary.oed.com/ -- the oed command is just a webscraper.

[aliothsan]

Heh. I should have figured it'd be something simple like that. Still, I'd pay to see my prof's face when he sees me cite an Athena command. Will he be highly amused or highly confused?

[teh_munchkin]

On unixy systems there's also the `dict` command. It will tell you it's source (it has many). That makes me wonder.... how would you cite program source code? Documentation that comes with a program in digital form (e.g. man pages, stuff in /usr/share/doc)?

[gwaihiril]

Athena has an oed command? That is awesome!
*wanders off to look up random words*