changes to oed

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Thanks, David. These changes are the result of publishing
directly from our working database, so many many thousands of
changes, including regularizing bibliography and language
names, that have been going on behind the scenes for years,
are now visible.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:44:59AM -0500, David Barnhart wrote:
> In a cursory examination of one etymology (_hero_) I've noticed:
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> (1)    More readably uniform Greek alphabet
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> (2)    Expansion of language name abbreviations (e.g. L becomes Latin, Gr.
> becomes Greek, Sp. becomes Spanish, etc.)
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> (3)    Expansion of such other abbreviations (e.g. cf. becomes compare, pl.
> becomes plural, obs. becomes obsolete, and Cotgr. becomes Cotgrave, c. [for
> century] becomes cent.).
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> (4)    The use of ad. (meaning "adapted from") becomes <
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> No doubt there are many more, such as Antiq. becomes Hist. at the beginning
> of def. 1, the grouping of citations with their respective forms in the
> "Compounds", formerly called "attrib and comb."  Note the change also from
> comb. to compounds.
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> Most of these are helpful to those who have not grown up on the print
> version of the OED.
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> DKB
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> Barnhart at highlands.com
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