Secret OED files uncovered

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Aug 5 19:11:23 UTC 2010


At 8:01 PM +0100 8/5/10, Michael Quinion wrote:
>  >From the Daily Telegraph: "Secret vault of words rejected by the Oxford
>English Dictionary uncovered". Wurfing, polkadodge and nonversation are
>among the words stored in secret files after being rejected for inclusion
>by the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been disclosed
>
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7926646/Secret-
>vault-of-words-rejected-by-the-Oxford-English-Dictionary-uncovered.html
>
>--


Wait till WikiLeaks gets ahold of this!

LH

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