[Ads-l] Wokeness

[Amy West]

On 1/16/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:25:02 -0500
> From:    Dennis During<dcduring at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Wokeness
>
> I'm guessing that at OED, as at most dictionaries, there is one person with
> primary responsibility for adding words with some characteristics, eg,
> beginning with 'wok'. If, at a critical time, that person is fired, is
> promoted, is in a bad mood, doesn't like the kind of people who use
> 'wokeness', etc., there could be major delay in OED filling a gap in their
> coverage.

Well, while the mechanism for adding new words at MW is a black box to 
me, I do know that there's a director of defining and senior editors 
involved, so it's more than one person, but it is a human-based process 
so there's bound to be gaps/oversights.

---Amy West

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