31.1285, Qs: Would you like to see World English recorded in the OED?

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Subject: 31.1285, Qs: Would you like to see World English recorded in the OED?

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:46:00
From: OED Team [oed.uk at oup.com]
Subject: Would you like to see World English recorded in the OED?

 
One of the main goals of the OED’s ambitious revision project is widening the
geographical coverage of the dictionary.

This is in recognition of the fundamental changes that the English-speaking
world has undergone since the OED was first conceived: the emerging language
communities of 19th century now speak established varieties of English that
are developing their own standards of grammar, pronunciation, and lexis.

OED3 acknowledges that with the current status of English as a world language,
no longer is British English to be regarded as the dominant form of English –
it is only one of the many individual varieties of the language that share a
common lexical core but develop their own unique vocabularies.

Early research to our academic audience has surfaced feedback that researchers
would like more coverage of World English in the OED, but we would now like to
understand more about this want and need.

Could you share your thoughts by completing our survey? 

Take the survey: https://bit.ly/328obBX
 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): English



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