XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
From: G6JPG@255soft.uk
On 2025/8/28 20:5:45, Sam Plusnet wrote:
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> "a lexicographer I know"
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> Do you get a family discount on access to the OED?
(-:
He's constantly reminding me that we _all_ have access, at least if we
have a library card (and this access can be used from home - just go via
your [probably county] library site, not direct to the OED site).>
> P.S. The thread prompted a discussion about meaning of the word - as it
> was used in a newspaper article published in 1825, so I doubt if any of
> the recent work on the OED would apply.
>
That was one of the reasons I forwarded it [and selections from this
discussion] to (OK, my brother); I thought they might not have that
particular example. His reply did not clarify whether they did. It might
not get into the dictionary itself for one of several reasons, such as
it isn't all that clear from it what the intended meaning _is_, or they
may have earlier(and/or better) citations illustrating that particular
meaning, and so on; they may have (or may have now put) it in their
database - not all such "cardings" get put into the dictionary itself:
for each shade of meaning, only a representative few are, to show things
like first use, and evidence of continued use over the
years/decades/centuries. They have a lot more citations (originally, and
still for those who wish to submit them in that form, on - I think about
4 by 6 inch - cards) than are actually used in the dictionary.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often
creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then
satisfy. - Lord Reith
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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