The OED's dates of appearance overseas

[Victor Steinbok]

It's hard to keep track of such things because not only did books travel
in both directions, but some were published in both places at (nearly)
the same time. That throws a lot of noise into the data--that is, if you
can even find the data in most instances

     VS-)

On 3/17/2012 2:06 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Fred, I think we can all agree that the OED does not pay attention to
> the earliest dates of spread of vocabulary, just the earliest dates
> of appearance somewhere (whether the British isles or the colonies).
>
> Joel

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