New OED notes (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

I prefer "screen's worth," too. But, WTF, I can see regarding
"screensworth" as being like "spoonful." "Different strokes," etc., to
coin a phrase.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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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
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> In the second link, editor John Simpson says:
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> "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). "
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> 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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