Reinventing_Wheels t1_ja3ye7y wrote on February 26, 2023 at 5:49 PM

My take on this is to be surprised that the OED isn't nearly as old of a publication as I assumed. I was thinking it was several hundreds of years old, at least, given how long Oxford University has been around.

PianoCharged OP t1_ja3z08a wrote on February 26, 2023 at 5:53 PM

I think the first edition took a long time to assemble. I seem to recall one of the articles I was reading last night mention that the project started in the 1890’s

quokka70 t1_ja4oh7e wrote on February 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM

"Work began on the dictionary in 1857..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary