Thanks to lexicographers

[Fred Shapiro]

One point that I don't think has been mentioned in this thread is that the
OED has a technique of dealing with non-naturalized usages of words: it
often puts such citations in square brackets, which signals that the
citation is not strictly or certainly an example of the headword.

Fred Shapiro


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