Examining the OED sets out to investigate the principles and practice behind the Oxford English Dictionary, an extraordinary achievement of scholarship and labour and the greatest dictionary of English ever compiled. The project is wholly independent of the OED itself, and seeks to provide scholarly commentary on and analysis of OED's methodology and practice.

Its main aim is to explore and analyse OED's quotations and quotation sources, so as to illuminate the foundations of the dictionary's representation of the English language.

See About the project for more information, and the site map for a conspectus of the material put up so far.