what has the oed become?
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The Oxford English
Dictionary: an online
adventure
John SimpsonChief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
Unity in Diversity 2013
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OED – outline publication
history1884-1928 First Edition published in 10 volumes
1972-86 4 volumes
of Supplement
published
1989 Second Edition
published in 20 volumes
(integration of First
Edition and
Supplements)
2000 OED goes online and first revised
and updated entries published2010 December:
new OED web
site
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Computerization –
the basics
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Words arriving in English
(animated sequence)
The year 1800: where do all the words come from?
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Using a historical thesaurus of
English online
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When did Italian words
start to enter English?
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Google ngrams
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Investigating the future…
where do we go now?
Some ideas:
Maintain editorial standards AND –
• access on new-generation devices
• crowd-sourcing/wikis
• free access
• stub entries
• etc…
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Hunting for Science Fiction
vocabulary
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Flagging work-in-progress in
stub entries…
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And if you still read books
about the OED…!
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