"Oxford Dictionary talks tech"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:47:44AM -0700, John McChesney-Young wrote:
> Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
> >On Aug 11, 2005, at 7:38 PM, I had quoted:
>
> >>"... the forward-looking folks at Oxford University Press
> >>have added such computer-oriented verbiage as offshoring, phishing,
> >>podcast and wiki to their big book."
> >>...
> >
> >
> >well, sure.  i assume you were just passing on this report.  or is
> >there something in it i've missed?
>
> I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I intended it primarily as an
> "OED in the media" note, although I also found the author's apparent
> notion that it's news that the OED is adding current tech vocabulary
> amusing. Perhaps it's unfair, but I got an image that he thought
> revision had stopped with the 1933 edition.

This has nothing to do with the OED, it's the ODE, or Oxford Dictionary
of English, that is being reported on. Some press coverage has confused
the two, but the one you quoted got it right. (Except for the "big book"
notion.)

Jesse Sheidlower
the really big one