10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OED»
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Treasure-house of the Language: The Living
OED
In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped—the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928—and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine
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' OED 8ng oZQ Rag. oEQ I 025 3qu oEG , oEQ mloffl T 3 I Twom TTS 2 OED ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
having one's own (or tribal) god. henotic: unifying. hendeca: one and ten;
hendecasyllabic; OED lists 9 and details 4 related words. Gk sun: together. E syn
changes to syl before /; to sym before b and p. syl. OED details 13 words, as
syllable: ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2001
The OED and Webster definitions are in some respects more precise and helpful
than the Chambers. That is to say, the uncanny is not simply synonymous with
the supernatural (as Chambers proposes), but is more accurately suggestive of ...
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Historical Linguistics, 1993: Selected Papers from the 11th ...
1.10), scarab 16, scribe 14, scrobe "a trench" 1686 (Lat. scrobis; OED), sorb "fruit
of the service tree" (Fr. sorbe or Lat. sorbum), sub (from various words beginning
with sub-; cf. 1.9), suburb 14, superb 16, tab (from tabulator or tablet; cf. 1.8, 1.9) ...
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The First Part of King Henry VI
3 sought searched (OED Seek v 10). 15 argues indicates (OED sv r 3). 3 country
district (OED sv sb 2). 16 concludes (1) makes an end, (2) proves the 4 it .chance
I have happened. supposition. 5 timeless untimely (OED sv adj 1). 17 obstacle ...
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway, 1990
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Linguistic Change Under Contact Conditions
(42) dig: 14c., 'probably from French diguer" and "cannot be derived from, or in
any way directly related to OE dic 'dike', 'ditch'" (OED 1989). (43) digue: 1523, '
dike' from French digue (from Dutch - OED 1989). (44) disembogue: 16 c., from ...
8
English Words: History and Structure
older obsolete and obsolescent words, but they considerably exceed the OED's
coverage of technical words from all the major fields of knowledge. Of the
291,627 entries in the OED, half or more than half are older words that no longer
occur ...
Robert P. Stockwell, Donka Minkova, 2001
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World Bank Operations Evaluation Department: The First 30 Years
H. Eberhard Köpp Director, Operations Evaluation Department, 1990-95 I'm glad
to come back to OED for the first time since I left in 1995. I was director here for
almost five years, and I took the initiative to join OED after quite a satisfying and ...
Patrick Grasso, Sulaiman S. Wasty, Rachel Weaving, 2003
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language
(Be) hap(pen). b) 13. . E. E. Allit. P., b 27, pe hapel clene of his hert hapenez ful
fayre (OED). | C1380 Sir Firumbr. 1634, To schewe to be borw my sawe how bat
ous is hapid. \ C1385 Chaucer, L. G. VV. 634, In the se it happede hem to mete.
Frederik Theodor Visser, 1963
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OED»
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The OED, as it's called, occasionally issues "OED Appeals" in which editors solicit help in unearthing new information about the history and ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
Weekend Briefing: Sheriff Manfre v. Ethics Commission, Credit Card …
The OED's Word of the Day: omniferous, adj.. The Live Community Calendar · Today's jail bookings. Today's Briefing: Quick Links. In Flagler ... «FlaglerLive.com, Jul 15»
How big is big data – and what can I do with it?
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines big data as “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its manipulation and management ... «Information Age, Jul 15»
The world's most charismatic mathematician
... 1730 at Eton as a schoolboy's joke. And, Conway recites nearly verbatim the OED's definition: “the action or habit of estimating as worthless.” ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
How 7 Popular Curse Words Originated, So You Can Feel Even …
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (aka the OED and my main source of info for this post), the word “shit” began being used in the 14th ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
Shades of suffrage: -ette vs. -ist
“Suffragist” entered in 1822 in England, the OED says, to mean “an advocate of the extension of the political franchise.” In the United States, ... «Columbia Journalism Review, Jul 15»
Praising a cat to sell a horse
The context of that single citation justifies the cautious gloss “cat” in the OED, and the Middle Dutch partial look-alike signifying something like ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
A Frenzied Feast & Chicago -Salem Pimpernel
Farce: noun. 1. stuffing. 2. a ludicrous, empty show. 3. an exaggerated form of comedy, having no object but laughter. (OED). Footlight Frenzy at ... «WilliametteLive.com, Jul 15»
English spelling makes no sense. Let this friendly 102-year-old …
You can see it in action in his translation of John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" (or, rather, "Oed to a Nietingael"): Mi hart aeks, and a drouzy ... «Vox, Jul 15»
Exclusive: Peter Copping's First Oscar de la Renta Campaign …
We'd say the brand's Fall campaign, debuting exclusively here, dares venture to add the words undone and relaxed into the OED. (That's the ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
