September 2009: revision notes
Down to the ‘wire’: the latest OED updates This quarter’s release of new and updated words for the OED addresses ten key words (clone, drug, face, global, image, Indian, skin,…
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December 2009 update: revision notes
OED publication range No 40 (refund – reputeless) is set right in the middle of the re- series of words. On the face of it, this may seem a reasonably…
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September 2009: new words notes
This OED release includes a characteristically wide variety of entirely new entries, as well as many newly added senses, compounds, and phrases. In the last category, a number of evocative…
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December 2008 update: revision notes
In October the OED held a series of seminars and talks in Oxford and elsewhere to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the completion of the first edition of the dictionary…
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September 2008 update: revision notes
Keywords updated: round two March 2008 saw a significant innovation in the publication of revised and updated OED entries, with the appearance online of a series of major terms outside…
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March 2007 update: revision notes
The revised range of the OED published on 15 March 2007 runs from Prakrit to prim. It contains 2,693 entries (8,756 subsenses, including compounds, etc.). This brings the total number…
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