Words from Popular Literature Not in OED

[Dave Wilton]

Exactly. I was just trying to think of examples of words that appear in a
single, recent work of popular literature. You don't find "muggle" outside
Rowling's books and associated commentary.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net


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Benjamin Zimmer
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Subject: Re: Words from Popular Literature Not in OED

On 11/8/06, Barnhart <barnhart at highlands.com> wrote:
>
> >"Muggle" might merit an entry pretty much solely on the fact that so many
> >people read the Potter books and the word can be found in many
> >commentaries and press pieces about the books.
>
> See The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 13.2).

"Muggle" is already in the OED, added in the March 2003 batch of
entries. It's also NOAD2.


--Ben Zimmer

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