OED Appeals list (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:53:17AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> Can I ask which appeals list this was taken from? A number
> of the things you've included seem to have antedatings
> considerably earlier than what was posted publicly.

(To take one example, you note that "claustrophobe" is
antedate 1974, now antedated to 1957, and supply cites
from the 1930s, but OED Online shows a 1911 example.)

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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