dwb wrote:
Ian,
I can comment only on the en-GB dictionary. I'm in the process of doing an
update at the moment which I hope to submit in a few weeks time.
Ian D. Bollinger wrote: | H'm. I assume this is the correct venue to mention words which are | missing from a dictionary, is it not? Also, is it possible to submit
Missing words are relatively easy to find - the hard ones are words in the
dictionary that are wrong, and this is where I'm focusing effort at the moment.
| Both dictionaries are also missing the alternate spellings slinked and | wrapt.
Neither "slinked" nor "wrapt" are listed in either my Chambers or OED.
| The dictionaries have the spelling mêlée but not melee, which is not the
"melee" is listed as US, "mêlée" as GB in my OED.
| The dictionaries have the spelling facade but not façade; the former is
The GB dictionary has "façade" in it.
| esoteric words: baronetess, cutpurse, de, doppelganger, er, ichor, | imperator, judicator, marquessate, moonrise, moonset, nescience, | pikeman, pikemen, pontifex, puzzlingly, rainforest, slinked, spearman, | thaumaturgy, unreachably, and viscounty.
de, er, moonrise, pikeman, pikemen, puzzlingly, rainforest are all in the en-GB dictionary. The rest are probably best not included.
| Finally, however, both dictionaries are missing the word okay (an | alternate spelling of OK, sadly). This seems like an extremely common
okay is missing and should probably be in.
| At any rate, is there anything I can do to help?
I'd appreciate any feedback and observations on the en-GB dictionary - just
drop me a line directly. The main thing I'm interested in is weeding out
errors that are still in the dictionary. :-)
I don't have anything to do with the en-US dictionary though.
Cheers David Bartlett (en_GB)
What are the criteria for a word being in one of OO's dictionaries?
Cutpurse, ichor, imperator, nescience, pontifex, spearman, thaumaturgy, and viscounty are all in my copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (fourth edition).
Also, marquisate is the preferred spelling of marquessate, and rapt the preferred spelling of wrapt, according to my dictionary.
Finally, doppelgänger appears to be the preferred spelling of doppelganger in the current OED, although my dictionary insists it is spelled "doppel-gänger" as the tome is half a century old.
-- Ian D. Bollinger
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