Kabir, the dictionaries I have on disc and in paper and the online dictionaries accessible via Yandex don’t have nardy. I’m glad a few are getting them. (I wouldn’t call the Ozhegov “for schoolchildren.”) The Big Academic Dictionary was stopped years and years ago, and thank heavens it’s finally getting going again. But since the early 90s, most of the big dictionaries have been reprinted — in glossy fancy covers — without being truly updated. The situation with R>E, E>R paper dictionaires is worse. In 2004 Yermolovich FINALLY updated the old Smirtnitsky R>E dictionary,which had only been slightly updated in the 1970s. It was filled with words for horses and carts and other delights of the 19th century.

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