Financial Times Article on OED

[Joel S. Berson]

Not sure which sort of people I are:

"Returning to John Simpson's desk, I ask what sort of people write in
to the OED with suggestions for dictionary entries. "Oh, very nice
people," he says in a scary sort of way, making me wonder if they are
a bunch of latter-day W.C. Minors. But, he adds hastily, many of them
make invaluable contributions - for example, working their way
through 18th-century texts that the OED's own staff would never have
enough time to examine."

Joel

At 3/12/2007 02:57 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>See below for thorough Financial Times article on the revision of OED:
>
>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/008ffd12-c6fd-11db-8078-000b5df10621.html
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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