The OED as a living document, its brief history and interesting new additions to it

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10. John Simpson is a normal man who doesn’t wear a
black velvet four-cornered cap and doesn’t expect
people to genuflect in his presence. It’s important to
establish this because Simpson – departing chief editor
of the Oxford English Dictionary – has failed to douse
the expectation that he is an austere patriarch with a
long white beard, like his Victorian predecessor, Sir
James Murray.
The chief editor of the OED is a very prominent figure;
the awe he inspires is not completely unexpected,
though.
The OED is the most exacting and authoritative living
document of the English language - with 20 monumental
volumes, more than half a million words, and in a state
of perpetual revision.
During his 37-year tenure, Simpson has not only initiated the biggest overhaul of the dictionary (the
Third Edition or OED3) for 100 years, but taken the mind-blowing endeavor – “the lingua franca of the
civilized modern world” – to the web.

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• Previous updates have added new terms, but the text of the original volumes has not changed since they
were published in 1928.
• Countless other resources from are now helping scholars to refine and expand the Dictionary’s coverage of
the formal, colloquial, slang, and dialect vocabulary of English since the twelfth century.
• Work on the revision programme has already resulted in over one in every four definitions being augmented
significantly .
• Because the Dictionary is now held in an electronic format, revising has become a more regular and ongoing
process. Once the huge task of updating the existing work is finished, the editors will continue to add new
information to the Dictionary database as they receive it, instead of storing it away for the next print revision.

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• Andragogy (n)
• Conversate (v)
• Dopiaza (n)
• Dudette (n)
• Eleventy (adj)
• Fro-yo (n)
• Gabba (n)
• Glamper (n)
• Scooby snack (n)
• Starchitect (n)
• Starter marriage (n)
• krump (n)
• Vongole (n)
• Listicle (n)
• Chronotype (n)
• Holy moly!
• …

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http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/03/more-tales-oed-researcher/

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http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/#video