TY  - JOUR
T1  - REading for a desert island
AU  - Armour R
Y1  - 1969/04/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160010135020
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 139
EP  - 139
VL  - 208
IS  - 1
N2  - The next time I am asked what book I would like to have if I were marooned on a desert island, I know my choice. It would be the New English Dictionary (1888-1933). Running to 11 huge volumes of small print, it would last me a long time, perhaps until someone picked up my note in an empty cough-syrup bottle and sent out a rescue party. The NED is crammed with fascinating information not usually included in a dictionary. In addition to the usual meanings and etymologies, it quotes from works dating back hundreds of years, and thus combines lexicography and history.Recently I opened the M-N volume, thinking to look up the word "medical." I already knew the ordinary things about the word, such as its coming from the Latin medicus, physician, and being akin to mederi, to heal, and remedium, remedy. I also knew that it can be
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160010135020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160010135020
ER  -