Latest OED Additions

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:56:26AM -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> Two questions for Jesse:  The OED has posted its latest batch of new
> entries, but I don't see the usual listing of new items from across the
> alphabet.  Am I missing something?

Because of our moving to a new computer system, we did a double batch
in June, so the "September" out-of-sequence new words were published
then.

>  Also, I don't see the phrase "play in Peoria"
> s.v. _Peoria_; presumably this will be s.v. _play_.  Can
> Jesse tell us what is the earliest citation OED has for
> "play in Peoria"?

No, it's in under _Peoria_ n.(2) (there are two _Peoria_s). We
define "play in Peoria," but don't separate it out from the
rest of the entry, so we didn't specifically look for the
earliest example of this phrase. 1975 is the earliest example
in the entry, with 1924 as the first quote for the sense as a
whole. If you have something earlier for _play_ I'll happily
put it in.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED