[Lexicog] Re: archaic entries and British fridges and a question about profession

[Justice, Alexander]

Interesting. I've been using "fridge" all my 40+ years (raised in or near Chicago). So has everyone around me. 
 
The OED is an aesthetic treasure no matter how dated its material. Nice to see it perhaps become affordable to more people who appreciate it. When I was fifteen and living in Bergamo, Italy, I spent a number of pleasant afternoons in the public library there learning about etymology from the OED. 
 
Quite on another tack, I was wondering who tends to populate this list. I'm a reference librarian myself, but with growing interest in contemporary lexicographal methods and minority / endangered languages.
 
Alexander Justice
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Loyola Marymount University
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310.338.5947
ajustice at lmu.edu

http://www.lmu.edu/library 



 


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	> By the way, I was in Blackwells bookshop in Oxford today and they have the
	> 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary 2nd edition on sale for £550, knocked
	> down from £2000.
	>
	> John Roberts
	
	     ---That's because the 2nd edition is obsolete! The online version is,
	as I understand it, being gradually updated as they work through the alphabet,
	so they are undoubtedly trying to get rid of the stock on hand before the
	3rd edition comes out.
	
	     As someone mentioned, "obsolete" can apply variably within a community.
	I'm sure that there are still plenty of people who refer to the "wireless",
	just as I use "ice box" for "refrigerator" instead of the rapidly spreading
	(in the US) "fridge", which I had thought of as British. So I guess we are
	swapping radios for fridges. In any case, I'm sure younger speakers regard
	my usage of "ice box" as "obsolete" (maybe they regard me that way also).
	But dictionaries don't usually discriminate age-stratification in usage,
	except perhaps in this oblique way.
	
	      Rudy Troike
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
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