XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/8/31 5:24:35, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:11:01 +0100, Richard Heathfield   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> On 29/08/2025 11:08, Hibou wrote:   
   >>> Le 29/08/2025 à 10:18, Steve Hayes a écrit :   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Does anyone here have access to the online Oxford dictionary,   
   >>>> and if   
   >>>> so, does it say anything about this usage. [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I can see nothing relevant. (I think J. P. Gilliver's tame   
   >>> lexicographer has already indicated that there isn't anything.)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I can't help wondering. What do lexicographers actually eat? And   
   >> do you need a licence?   
   >   
   > You can probably find answers to that, and a few other things on this   
   > topic, in "The Dictionary of Lost Words" -- see my review here:   
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   And if you want to see what lexicographers' gentle sense of humour is   
   like, watch this video made at the time of Brexit about what leaving EU   
   did to the OED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55lG3ZV0EQ   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   This was before we knew that a laboratory rat, if experimented upon,   
   will develop cancer.   
   [Quoted by] Anne (annezo@aol.com), 1997-1-29   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)