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Murray’s 3 rd in command: William Craigie

Murray’s 3 rd in command: William Craigie. Murray’s 4 th in command: Charles Onions. Murray’s successors. C.T. Onions Henry Bradley William Craigie. An OED slip for set (v.). a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. IV. (1550) 32b, Duryng whiche

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Murray’s 3 rd in command: William Craigie

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  1. Murray’s 3rd in command: William Craigie

  2. Murray’s 4th in command: Charles Onions

  3. Murray’s successors C.T. Onions Henry Bradley William Craigie

  4. An OED slip for set (v.) a1548 Hall Chron., Hen. IV. (1550) 32b, Duryng whiche sickenes as Auctors write he caused his crowne to be set on the pillowe at his beddes heade.

  5. An OED slip for ne’er-do-well 1887 Beatrice Potter [N.B. Mrs Sidney Webb since 1892] Nineteenth Century, Oct. 1887, p. 483, The Dock Life of East London, The popular imagination represents the dock- labourer either as an irrecoverable ne’er-do-well, or as a down-fallen angel

  6. William Minor, inmate of the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane

  7. OED editorial assistant 1919-1920 J.R.R. Tolkien

  8. 1928: OED (1st edn) completed;15,490 pages; 414,825 words

  9. The OED Supplements • Five supplements were published: • first one in 1933 • four further ones in 1972-1986 • Aims: to keep up with new developments in vocabulary and to correct/add to the existing material

  10. Editor of OED,1957-1986 Robert Burchfield

  11. Second edition of OED 1989: 2nd edition • Integrated all the material of the 1st edition and the supplements into one work • Added 5,000 new words • 20 volumes

  12. Editors of OED since 1985 John Simpson Edmund Weiner

  13. OED on CD-ROM (1992) and Internet (late 1990s) • Moving from word to word at a single click • Option of making visible or suppressing certain types of information • Many search options, e.g. searching through all the quotations in the OED (ca. 17 million words of text – equivalent to ca 40,000 printed pages)

  14. THE OED on the internet http://dictionary.oed.com/

  15. Optimistic plans for 3rd edition of OED OED Newsletter January 1995 John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary: “This is the first of a new-style series of newsletter, intended to keep readers up to date on progress towards the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, scheduled for publication in the year 2005. Our current objective is nothing less than a comprehensive revision of the OED, most of which has not been re-edited since the original publication of OED1 between 1884 and 1928.”

  16. 3rd edition of OED: a renewed encounter with reality • A megajob (cost: £34 million) • Aim: checking and correcting all the existing material; adding much more contemporary material • So far: letters M, N, O, P, Q and R (in progress) • Results are regularly added to the OED on its website (quarterly updates; the words RAN – REAMY were added in Dec 2008)

  17. Modern appeals for assistance BBC2 programme Balderdash and Piffle (2006; 2007) • Generating interest in the project • Appeal for help from the public: WORDHUNT e.g. balti – origins? the Beeb – who first used this form? to bonk – used before 1975?

  18. THE END

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