why buy the cow?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:01:41AM -0400, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>
> And those words go out to ALL the antedaters who generously
> share their research.  The number of redatings of the vocabulary
> that have resulted from their work is truly amazing, as I'm sure
> Jesse can attest.

Yes, indeed--without the volunteers who so generously devote
their time to helping us, the OED would be a much less
accurate work.

I'm still in awe of 75-100 things a day, though, that the MW folk do.

Jesse Sheidlower