New OED notes (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The OED has release another quarter's worth of revisions.
http://dictionary.oed.com/news/updates/newwords0812.html
http://dictionary.oed.com/news/updates/revisions0812.html

In the second link, editor John Simpson says:

"What that list, extracted from all of the entries in the range, fails
to show is that the range includes the monumental prefix re- (69
screensworth of material on the OED's editorial computer system). "

He uses "screensworth" as a single word.  I'd have written "screens'
worth".  (and note that "screensworth" is not in the OED.)


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