[Ads-l] OED updates

[Barretts Mail]

I submitted once or twice using the OED’s form, but it was laborious and I believe it was Jesse Sheidlower who said that the OED checks this list, so I stopped doing that. 

I hope they are checking this list and that that was just an oversight.

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 11 Oct 2019, at 20:32, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> The new round of updates to the OED includes:
> 
> poke n.7  In Hawaiian cookery: sliced or cubed marinated raw fish or seafood, often served over rice.
> 
> with a first citation from 1978.
> 
> In Jul 2018, I posted to the list
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2018-July/152341.html
> citations going back to 1956.  (I'm pretty sure I cc'ed the OED as well, but I sent it from my work account, and can't check it right now.)

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