Pitfalls of Online Antedating

[Mullins, Bill]

Is the below a hard and fast rule?  I've submitted some science fiction cites from 
scanned fanzines that I would bet that no one at the OED _can_ look up on original
print sources.
 
 

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Fred Shapiro
Sent: Wed 1/19/2005 8:39 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Pitfalls of Online Antedating



On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Baker, John wrote:

  Ultimately there is a backup to our errors
stemming from the bibliographic weaknesses of online tools, namely the
fact that the OED verifies quotations from original print sources.