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“OED Appeals”
‘Your dictionary needs you’: a brief history of the OED’s appeals to the public
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The OED Appeals
The Appeals are a new part of the Oxford English Dictionary website where OED editors ask for your help in uncovering the history of particular words and phrases. Each appeal is an invitation to assist OED editors in finding the earliest recorded date (or some other key aspect) of a word, to provide an accurate picture of when it made its [...]
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