The OED revision

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:45:27AM -0500, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 1/18/2012 06:49 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> >There are many really dated OED entries in the beginning of the
> >alphabet, which is why it was a good decision of theirs to shift to
> >the beginning of the alphabet before finishing up the latter part of
> >the alphabet.
>
> I didn't know that.  Through which section of the grandstand is the
> crest of the OED wave moving at the moment?

The most recent published batch contained entries at the beginning of
"A":

http://oed.com/public/simpson1211

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