| More than 300 words and phrases are being examined, with OED researchers hoping to antedate them or postdate them. |
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| If we turn to the faithful OED, the word is said to date back to the eighteenth century and was used by the great literates of Swift and Dickens. |
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| The glosses above required no independent lexicography because I just cut and pasted them from the OED, which cites these examples of the intransitive. |
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| Since this use of 'ginger' is considered obsolete by the OED, these instances suggest a re-invention via back-formation rather than a survival of the old word. |
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| Yes, the latest issue of WordWays, the oddest journal on the planet, announces that computer-aided searches of the OED have found 523 of the 625 vowel tetragrams. |
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| Despite its impressive size, the OED is neither the world's largest nor the earliest exhaustive dictionary of a language. |
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| This article will map the historical roots of the OED, how it came into being, and what its present and future looks like. |
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| Revisions were started at the letter M, with new material appearing every three months on the OED Online website. |
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| The New International editions continued to offer words and features not covered by the OED, and vice versa. |
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| Once over the initial shock of its scale of information, the OED provides a habit-forming source of wonder and insight. |
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| They've all been added to the online edition of the OED as part of the ongoing updates to this authoritative reference tool. |
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| The OED quotation from 1609 does not say what a mere is, except that it looks black. |
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| With the relaunch of the OED Online website in December 2010, alphabetical revision was abandoned altogether. |
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| Many of the variant forms in the OED may also qualify as examples of the genres below but have not been included because they are not phoneticized individually. |
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| Most people seem to take the common-sensical view that or sometimes functions inclusively and sometimes exclusively, and this is the position that the OED takes. |
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| The term was derived from its use for Insular script, first cited by the OED in 1908, and is also used for the group of Insular Celtic languages by linguists. |
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| The OED also lists CUCKER, DUDDER, LULLER and MUMMER, which may qualify. |
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