No Help, No Reference

Prepare yourself for a dictionary with no help, no preface and no explanation for the dozens of cryptic bits of information that are thrown into a definition. The electronic version of the SOED does not contain the preface that the printed version contains. Therefore, you have no idea of what the little daggers mean, IME-m17, why some words are italicized, bolded and what the various colors represent. The definitions are fine but their is so much other information included with the definitions that you feel you are not getting the total value of this effort. I have requested this information from the support address given above and hopefully they come through.

Rodrigaj about Shorter Oxford English Dict