[Ads-l] Arnold Zwicky in OED

[Ben Zimmer]

Arnold had previously been recognized by the OED for "frequency illusion"
(citing the same 2005 Language Log post with "recency illusion"). That was
included in the Mar. 2019 update, which I wrote about here:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=42180

I also noticed that "recency illusion" had been added to the OED last year
-- as I note at the end of this post from last October:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44656

Not sure why it's only now making the OED inclusion list.

https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-january-2020/

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 9:44 AM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> > On Jan 25, 2020, at 6:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> wrote:
> >
> > I see that in my last email I misspelled Arnold's name in the heading !
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:54 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Arnold Zwidky in OED
> >
> > I see in the latest release of new OED entries that Arnold Zwicky's
> coinage "recency illusion" has been added to the OED.  Congratulations,
> Arnold !
>
> many thanks, fred.
>
> and i *think* that this is a new misspelling (i have a file somewhere with
> many dozens).  it's a typewriter typo -- look where the C and D are on a
> QWERTY keyboard. akin to the relatively frequent ZWIXKY (and ARBOLD).
>
>

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