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The Oxford English Dictionary Online:work in progress and future plans
Some facts & figures
• 231,165 entries in OED2
• 35% of OED2 entries revised (38% of all ‘items’)
• 275,629 entries currently on OED Online, of which 121,771
are revised entries (44%)
• 886,675 ‘items’ currently on OED Online, of which 371,390
are revised ‘items’ (42%)
• 61,993 new ‘items’
• 3,442,257 illustrative quotations
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Examples of core changes
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Pronunciation
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Forms
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Etymology
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Definitions
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Antedatings
OED2 adj. and n.
OED Online n. and adj.
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Massive antedatings
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Postdatings
like adv. (OED2 –1879)
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Traditional lexicography and
digital lexicography
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Were they from Geneva, or was it really Genoa?
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Genoa…
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but, later, Geneva
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Only in the OED…
OED and corpora
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• to assess what constitutes typical use (in terms of collocational
behaviour, register, etc.), so that we define typical use and include
representative illustrative examples;
• to identify new lemmas, compounds, phrases, and (where
possible) senses;
• to establish the regional scope of words and regional variation
between related words;
• to make detailed comparisons between closely related words;
• to establish frequencies of lemmas, etc., and relative frequencies
between them;
• to speed up editorial decision-making.
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What do we use corpora for?
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typicality
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identifying new compounds
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table quiz
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where do they have table quizzes?
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Word comparison
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Diachronic possibilities
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inciting things (good and bad)
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looking bad now
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was it looking better earlier?
Thank you