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class=904073018-15032006>Interesting. I've been using "fridge" all my 40+
years (raised in or near Chicago). </SPAN>S<SPAN class=904073018-15032006>o
has everyone around me. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=904073018-15032006>The OED is an aesthetic treasure no matter how dated
its material. Nice to see it perhaps become affordable to more people who
appreciate it. When I was fifteen and living in Bergamo, Italy, I spent a number
of pleasant afternoons in the public library there learning about
etymology from the OED. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=904073018-15032006>Quite on another tack, I was wondering who tends to
populate this list. I'm a reference librarian myself, but with growing interest
in contemporary lexicographal methods and minority / endangered
languages.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Alexander Justice<BR>Reference Librarian<BR><BR>Von der Ahe
Library<BR>Loyola Marymount University<BR>One LMU Drive<BR>Los Angeles, CA
90045<BR><BR>310.338.5947<BR>ajustice@lmu.edu<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.lmu.edu/library">http://www.lmu.edu/library</A>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>rtroike@email.arizona.edu<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:04
PM<BR><B>To:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Lexicog]
Re: archaic entries<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><TT><BR>> By the way, I was in Blackwells bookshop in Oxford
today and they have the<BR>> 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary 2nd
edition on sale for £550, knocked<BR>> down from £2000.<BR>><BR>>
John Roberts<BR><BR> ---That's because the 2nd edition
is obsolete! The online version is,<BR>as I understand it, being gradually
updated as they work through the alphabet,<BR>so they are undoubtedly trying
to get rid of the stock on hand before the<BR>3rd edition comes
out.<BR><BR> As someone mentioned, "obsolete" can
apply variably within a community.<BR>I'm sure that there are still plenty of
people who refer to the "wireless",<BR>just as I use "ice box" for
"refrigerator" instead of the rapidly spreading<BR>(in the US) "fridge", which
I had thought of as British. So I guess we are<BR>swapping radios for fridges.
In any case, I'm sure younger speakers regard<BR>my usage of "ice box" as
"obsolete" (maybe they regard me that way also).<BR>But dictionaries don't
usually discriminate age-stratification in usage,<BR>except perhaps in this
oblique way.<BR><BR> Rudy
Troike<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></TT>
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