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Wright, Joseph (1 February 1898). "The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years;". London [etc.]: H. Frowde; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons – via the Internet Archive. a b Winchester, Simon (2003). The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860702-1. a b "Preface to the Additions Series (vol. 1): Introduction". Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1993. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008 . Retrieved 16 May 2008. Kite, Lorien (15 November 2013), "The evolving role of the Oxford English Dictionary", Financial Times (online edition) In the early 1980s, the Press began to consider how to bring this monumental dictionary into the modern age. It was clear that the traditional methods of dictionary compilation were no longer suitable. A decision was made to combine the First Edition and Supplements before embarking on any revision of the text. This required the data to be converted into electronic form, upon which the texts could be amalgamated and edited, all with the help of external providers. Project managers and systems engineers would now be required alongside lexicographers and the Press duly set about this with the formation of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project in 1984.

Robert Burchfield was hired in 1957 to edit the second supplement; [32] Charles Talbut Onions turned 84 that year but was still able to make some contributions as well. The work on the supplement was expected to take about seven years. [31] It actually took 29 years, by which time the new supplement (OEDS) had grown to four volumes, starting with A, H, O, and Sea. They were published in 1972, 1976, 1982, and 1986 respectively, bringing the complete dictionary to 16 volumes, or 17 counting the first supplement. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-861258-2): Includes definitions of 500,000 words, 290,000 main entries, 137,000 pronunciations, 249,300 etymologies, 577,000 cross-references, over 2,412,000 illustrative quotations, and is again accompanied by a magnifying glass.Accordingly, it was recognized that work on a third edition would have to begin to rectify these problems. [48] The first attempt to produce a new edition came with the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, a new set of supplements to complement the OED2 with the intention of producing a third edition from them. [51] The previous supplements appeared in alphabetical instalments, whereas the new series had a full A–Z range of entries within each individual volume, with a complete alphabetical index at the end of all words revised so far, each listed with the volume number which contained the revised entry. [51] The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, originally started in 1902 and completed in 1933, [81] is an abridgement of the full work that retains the historical focus, but does not include any words which were obsolete before 1700 except those used by Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, and the King James Bible. [82] A completely new edition was produced from the OED2 and published in 1993, [83] with revisions in 2002 and 2007. Blake, G. Elizabeth; Bray, Tim; Tompa, Frank Wm (1992). "Shortening the OED: Experience with a Grammar-Defined Database". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 10 (3): 213–232. doi: 10.1145/146760.146764. S2CID 16859602. About". Oxford English Dictionary . Retrieved 13 November 2021. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. Trench, Richard Chenevix (1857). "On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries". Transactions of the Philological Society. 9: 3–8.

McPherson, Fiona (2013). The Oxford English Dictionary: From Victorian venture to the digital age endeavour (mp4). (McPherson is Senior Editor of OED) By the time the new supplement was completed, it was clear that the full text of the dictionary would need to be computerized. Achieving this would require retyping it once, but thereafter it would always be accessible for computer searching—as well as for whatever new editions of the dictionary might be desired, starting with an integration of the supplementary volumes and the main text. Preparation for this process began in 1983, and editorial work started the following year under the administrative direction of Timothy J. Benbow, with John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner as co-editors. [37] In 2016, Simpson published his memoir chronicling his years at the OED: The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary – A Memoir (New York: Basic Books). The revision is expected roughly to double the dictionary in size. [4] [62] Apart from general updates to include information on new words and other changes in the language, the third edition brings many other improvements, including changes in formatting and stylistic conventions for easier reading and computerized searching, more etymological information, and a general change of focus away from individual words towards more general coverage of the language as a whole. [55] [63] While the original text drew its quotations mainly from literary sources such as novels, plays, and poetry, with additional material from newspapers and academic journals, the new edition will reference more kinds of material that were unavailable to the editors of previous editions, such as wills, inventories, account books, diaries, journals, and letters. [62] Contributors: Tolkien". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016 . Retrieved 3 October 2012. Winchester, Simon (27 May 2007). "History of the Oxford English Dictionary". TVOntario (Podcast). Big Ideas. Archived from the original ( MP3) on 16 February 2008 . Retrieved 1 December 2007.Mugglestone, Lynda (2000). Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest. Oxford University Press. p.245. Additional material for a given letter range continued to be gathered after the corresponding fascicle was printed, with a view towards inclusion in a supplement or revised edition. A one-volume supplement of such material was published in 1933, with entries weighted towards the start of the alphabet where the fascicles were decades old. [19] The supplement included at least one word ( bondmaid) accidentally omitted when its slips were misplaced; [27] many words and senses newly coined (famously appendicitis, coined in 1886 and missing from the 1885 fascicle, which came to prominence when Edward VII's 1902 appendicitis postponed his coronation [28]); and some previously excluded as too obscure (notoriously radium, omitted in 1903, months before its discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics. [29]). Also in 1933 the original fascicles of the entire dictionary were re-issued, bound into 12 volumes, under the title " The Oxford English Dictionary". [30] This edition of 13 volumes including the supplement was subsequently reprinted in 1961 and 1970. The OED 's utility and renown as a historical dictionary have led to numerous offspring projects and other dictionaries bearing the Oxford name, though not all are directly related to the OED itself.