And my wife (Susan Rennie) works as a freelance dictionary editor for OUP and used to work on the OED. I'll put pressure on her to update the entry...
Rob MacKillop 2009/12/10 Karen Hore <[1][email protected]> Andrew wrote: 'The OED also has its own BBC TV program (Balderdash & Piffle) that invites people to propose earlier usages and new words. Ah - the web site has a 'Contribute to the OED' page with a 'New Etymological and Dating Evidence' section: [1][2]http://www.oed.com/readers/research.html Does someone want to update the OED lute-wise?' Well, the BBC made two series of 'Balderdash and Piffle' about the OED, they were quite fun. And for those who can watch daytime TV in the UK that stalwart old game show 'Countdown' is all about words and numbers and the OED is represented on the the show by the universally cherished Susie Dent, who decides if contestants words, unscrambled from random letters, are acceptable according to the OED - this programme has quite a following. If you think you have good evidence contact the OED. In the end they will decide if the evidence is strong enough. It sounds promising. Karen Hore [2][3][email protected] -- References 1. [4]http://www.oed.com/readers/research.html 2. mailto:[5][email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at [6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.oed.com/readers/research.html 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.oed.com/readers/research.html 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
