"second to none"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Hmm. I find sixteen examples when doing a full-text advanced search of
OED entries, but even when entering "second to none" in the quick-search
box, you get a bunch of hits, and with two hits in definitions.

It's already been suggested that "second to none" be a specific lemma at
_second_ pron., so searches were more explicitly find it, but if you
really got _no_ results from an advances search, something's really
wrong.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:29:40PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> If you say so....
>
> But an advanced search from my obviously second-to-yours computer was
> wholly rebuffed.
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 07:59:26PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> A search finds no trace in OED.
> >
> > Except, perhaps, for the mention at NONE pron. A.2.a., which
> > cross-refers to SECOND adj. 2.a., "Hence, in negative and limiting
> > contexts, Inferior (_to none, only to..._)," with quotations from
> > Shakespeare onwards?
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
> > OED
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