OED first edition

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:

> >"The Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, was first printed as 125 separate
> >volumes, from 1884 to 1928."
> >
> >No wonder they decided to go to CD-ROM.
> >
> >      - Jim Landau
>
> Is that true? - in my (well his) copy - the A volume is dated 1888 and the
> V-Z 1928 and there's only 20 of them + a Supplement and Bibliography.

I assume what was meant was "125 facsicles."

Fred


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