The OED's dates of appearance overseas

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS, as many academics know, is careful to indicate cites from non-North
American sources.

(The number of Canadian sources it draws from is negligible.)

JL

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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
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>     VS-)
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> 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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