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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   Followups set to SUE/AEU only [I won't see any further]   
      
   On 2025/8/29 5:8:13, Ross Clark wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > You may be able to help me. My relationship with OED goes back to the   
   > years when it was all done by paper and post. (I believe my first   
   > communication was to point out a spurious citation for "mako (species of   
   > shark)".) During the 1990s - early 2000s I fairly regularly sent lists   
   > of notes from my readings of mainly 18th- and 19th-century books about   
   > the Pacific, which sometimes filled a gap in documentation or clarified   
   > a meaning. (As a side project I explored the mysterious origins of the   
   > term "missionary position", and somewhere I have a letter from one of   
   > the editors declaring that my solution -- Kinsey misquoting Malinowski   
   > -- is the correct one.)   
      
   (Not the great Murray, was it?) That's fascinating! I always thought the   
   usually-given explanation didn't sound very plausible.>   
   > Nowadays I access OED Online via the library of the university where I   
   > used to teach. There is an online submission form for people who want to   
   > contribute, but it is set up for one word at a time. My problem is that   
   > I have one last list which, I'm pretty sure, I never got around to   
   > submitting. It's maybe 30 items (from one source), with context and my   
   > notes about possible relevance to OED. A small Word document. It would   
   > put my mind at rest if I could send it to them, even if it does no more   
   > than disappear into the great database. Can you suggest a suitable address?   
   Sorry, can't really help: I don't want to (publicly or privately) give   
   out my brother's email address. Have you looked at OED's and OUP's   
   websites? There might be something there. You could always still use the   
   post - using whatever address you had before! - and I'm sure it'd get   
   processed; however, electronic communication would probably be better.   
      
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