"Partial-Birth"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/20/2007 09:20 AM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
>>No, but _partial-birth abortion_ is in OED.
>
>My bad.  I searched for "partial birth" in the online OED and nothing came
>up.  I guess I should have moved on to examining the entry for "partial,"
>where I would have found it.

Gee, I would hope (or else I need to modify my own search strategy!)
"partial-birth" would show up in a Search for Quotation Text (or Full
Text) if "partial-birth abortion" is present!  And the Search
facility ignores the hyphen vs. space difference.  (The OED2 CD-ROM
does -- e.g., "part-time" and "part time" yield the same number of hits.)

Joel

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