...and we only have the reference work in (pretty bad) pdf and it would be helpful to have it in any form we could actually search etc.
The UManitoba scholar is one of my current HEROES and I need you to know why.
It turns out that this person 'worked with the files' of the (elder) linguist who originally produced them.
I had hypothesized that the elder linguist probably had stuff in i.e. MSWord .doc (but not .docx). You're not ready to hear what the actual situation was...
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