My experience with the folks digging up citations was uniformly pleasant. I
was the second to publish a phrase "word & sorcery" in a magazine, and they
tracked me down, and I provided them with photocopies of the relevant
essay, and they thanked me very much.
George Scithers of owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx
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From: "Bill Troop"
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Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with OED and NT (was Bemoan)
>
> >(mostly newfangled words, I assume; I'm
> >an antiquarian and could care less)
>
> actually, there is much info on older words; for instance, Shakespeare is
> being re-evaluated in some respects since many words whose first
citations
> were ascribed to him, have since been antedated to other writers. There
is
> much, much of this kind of thing in the new supplements. I assume the new
> supps are integrated into the text; it is a total pain to look up
something
> in two places. For example, longueur is in the Shorter OED Supp etc. etc.
> It's worth subscribing to the reader's program at OED. You never know
when
> you might be able to help them with a post or pre dating. They do warn,
> though, in the latest newsletter, not to rely on google searches for
cites
> -- they've already done things like that.
>
>