: New revision strategy announced by OED editors

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/13/2008 10:44 AM, Grant Barrett quoted [excerpted]:
>The main purpose of this change is to revise, much earlier than
>would otherwise have been the case, important English words whose
>meanings or application have developed most over the past century:
>i.e. computer, culture, fuck, gay, and genetic. Some of these key
>words are, as one might expect, among those often looked up by
>readers of the OED.

My mailing from the "Oxford English Dictionary Online Update" has
apparently been censored.  It has in the i.e. list (which of course
should be e.g., unless they're saying something really interesting) merely

computer, culture, gay, and genetic.

I'm also disappointed they did not use all 5 words in a single sentence.

Joel

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