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10.4: View some interesting definitions in the Dictionary
Authored by: lsmft5178 on May 11, '05 02:01:41PM

This hint seems to imply that this behavior is a dictionary easteregg, but is in fact just a regular property of how dictionaries work. Look at it this way: 'jobs', 'gates' and 'bonds' are all words that will bring up individuals before they bring up 'real' definitions, where as 'dole' 'gore' and 'bush' will bring up 'real' definitions first. We could easily assume that this is a result of a wily Giants loving Apple employee with no interest in politics. I would point out that the real difference between these two sets has nothing to do with computers, baseball, or politics, but instead that the words in the first set are all plural. The dictionary pulls up Stevie's entry first because it has a separate entry for 'Jobs' but not one for the plural of 'job'.
To address Rob's point about using the application directly, the difference in behavior is because the applications entry field is case sensitive, and the contextual menu is not.
If anything it's happy accident. If you only look up words relating to computers in the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll think that you have a book about computers.



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10.4: View some interesting definitions in the Dictionary
Authored by: kps on May 11, '05 02:15:45PM
If you only look up words relating to computers in the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll think that you have a book about computers.

According to my copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, Revised with Addenda:

Computer, one who computes, specifically one employed to make calculations in an observatory, etc.
I suppose that might have changed slightly in later editions.

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