the OED

This seems to be the most up to date research on the subject since it appears in the OED online as posted in draft September 2004.

Ms. McPherson said the OED requires 'evidence of a word's usage over a 10-year period, before considering it for inclusion' in its editions.

The OED tells me that this word comes from ancient Greek where Nemesis was a goddess.

But despite its global reputation, the OED has never made a profit and continues to cost several million pounds a year in research.

It was pointed out in particular by John Simpson, the OED's Chief Editor as the first word he ever worked on when he joined the OED in 1976.

You can tell that this particular entry in the OED has not been updated too recently.

Wells predicted that the OED would be bursting with a quarter of a million words defined.

It means to do some sort of damage and the OED claims it's from Afro-American origins.

Well, to be truthful, none of my sources go down that path, so what's the OED telling me.

The OED is a little speculative in its etymology but it certainly has more information for goal than for many other words.

Though the "soaked bread" etymology appears in a few sources the OED simply says it's from Spanish.

I see that the entrys in the OED second and draft third edition are a little different.

The board of the OED decided they would throw a party for these hard working volunteers and give them a little thank you memento.

This was six years after the Philological Society of London got Oxford University started working on what eventually became the OED.

The source of the word dapper is "Flemish or another Low German dialect" according to the OED.

The entry is one of several controversial phrases among 45, 436 new definitions in the latest online edition of the OED.

One is the OED version, another is heroin injection, which would make sense in connection with the book and the movie.

Love it or loathe it, "lol" is now a legitimate word in our lexicon, says Graeme Diamond, the OED's principal editor for new words.

As with most French words mess actually goes back to Latin and the OED even takes it back further to Indo-European.

There were other areas of the world as well called the pale; the OED mentions Calais in northern France.

Still, the other etymological sources I checked seemed to agree with the OED.

Although the OED is not a narrative, not scripture, not poetry, it is, nonetheless, transportive.

Perhaps the "rustic sport" the OED refers to was a running-race.

Ingram says the OED staff discuss project ratings with operational staff when there are differences, but have the final judgment on ratings.

Now, 150 years after the first idea, the OED is available at the touch of a computer key.

The OED, as a historical lexicon, keeps on growing.

The OED's first citation for tremendous in the "extraordinarily great" sense is from the English poet Robert Southey.

The OED is the final court of appeal in all matters concerning English words.

Such is indeed the case with the OED Second Edition.

The OED has 33 different numbered definitions for set. Tiny little word, 33 numbered definitions.

The OED online gives a first citation of gazpacho from 1845 and even gives a recipe.

I should also say that what the OED calls "Modern German" . It is probably extracting from documents more than 100 years old.

The OED's first citation is under a definition reading: