Originally Posted By: joemikeb
Apparently the cost of publication rights for the Oxford dictionaries is not an issue for Apple because the dictionaries that showed up on my Mac are:
  • New Oxford American Dictionary
  • Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
  • Apple Dictionary
  • Wikipedia
  • Oxford Thesaurus of English
  • Oxford Dictionary of English
  • พจนานุกรมไทย ฉบับทันสมัยและสมบูรณ์ (that's Thai)
  • Gran Diccionario Oxford - Español-Inglés • Inglés-Español
  • Dicionário de Português licenciado para Oxford University Press
  • Толковый словарь русского языка
  • ArkadaÅŸ Türkçe Sözlük

Or maybe not.

I noted the Oxford copyrights a while back, and they were never at issue; I suggested a possible royalty issue for the now gone The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

And I don't know what's up with this, but you listed 11 dictionaries, and I"ve got 31 in Sierra, many, maybe even most, of which are more logical choices than Turkish.


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