[Ads-l] "Equal Protection" Not In OED

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Fri Nov 25 13:37:57 UTC 2022


Thank you for the illumination. I take back my ignorant indignation. I 
should have done my research first.

---Amy West


On 11/25/22 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:43:20 +0000
> From:    Ben Zimmer<bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: "Equal Protection" Not In OED
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 5:26 PM Amy West<medievalist at w-sts.com>  wrote:
>
>> On a related tangent I saw that Oxford is working on a Dictionary of
>> AAVE and, frankly, I'm torn: Yay, if it helps de-stigmatize the variety,
>> but also, y'all are Brits: keep to your own shore.
>>
> ODAAE is a collaboration with Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and
> African American Research, employing American researchers and
> lexicographers.
>
> https://public.oed.com/oxford-dictionary-of-african-american-english/
> https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/odaae
>
> --bgz


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