Secret OED files uncovered

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, 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

Michael has a takedown of the Telegraph article in his latest World
Wide Words newsletter, and I pile on in my Word Routes column on the
Visual Thesaurus:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2387/

--bgz

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