The eschewing OED [Was: "taint", anatomical]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/13/2012 11:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>slang collecting from every kind if source - including movies and
>humans, which OED used to eschew

Movies, at least from scripts, I gather are now chewed by the
OED.  But humans, from purely oral utterances?  Has the OED become
cannibalistic?  (Or does "from ... humans" mean the WWW?)

Gesundheit,
Joel

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