“We’re in trouble if the language ends, and not just professionally”: Fiona McPherson, a lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary (New Statesman ). This visit to the OED offices includes astirbroad, burner phone, and what the what.
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
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Didn’t the OED at one time keep cant, jargon, slang, and other ephemeral words & “phrasals” separate?
ReplyDeleteI don’t know, but my guess would be no. The second edition is just A to Z, with a supplement for more recent words.
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