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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) great multi-volume historical dictionary of English. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words] See : Lexicography How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By 1918, the OED was and ongoing project stretching across the previous sixty years since its beginnings. The amount of research "kind of overwhelmed us," says Chad Miller, an economic development specialist in the OED. The OED traces the term's origin to an 1886 journal report that proclaims them words with "no real existence. |
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