Examining the OED
What does the OED tell us about the English language?
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Top sources
Top sources in OED3
Fe/male sources
Top female sources
20c fe/male sources
First quotations
Period coverage
1150-1499 in OED1/OED2
1150-1499 in OED3
1500-1699 in OED1/OED2
1500-1699 in OED3
1700-1799 in OED1/OED2
1700-1799 in OED3
1800-1929 in OED1/OED2
1800-1929 in OED3
1930-1989 in OED2
1930 onwards in OED3
OED1 quotation collection
Initial aims
Initial practice
Early progress
20th-century Supplements quotation collection (coming soon)
1933
1972-86
OED2 & Additions quotation collection (coming soon)
OED3 quotation collection
OED3 quotation sources
Wills and inventories
Online sources
Reading and readers
Individual readers
Instructions
Complaints (OED1 and Supplement)
Issues and problems (OED1)
Today’s readers
Literary sources
Overview
Policy and practice
Literature and the lexicon: initial questions
Lexicographical reservations
Literary issues
The canon
Indexes and inconsistencies
Connotation vs. denotation
Writers and dictionaries
Auden and the OED
Auden in OED Supplement
Auden in OED3
Joyce
MacDiarmid, Hugh (coming soon)
Other literary authors in OED
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Shakespeare (coming soon)
Topics
Overview
18th-century Leverhulme study
Reading and recording
Jean Adam
Nae Luck
Misc. Poems
Adam’s unrecorded vocabulary
Adam’s new words or senses
Adam’s antedatings
Adam’s postdatings
Adam & 18c gap
Adam & early-18c gap
Penelope Aubin
Aubin and the OED
Aubin’s unrecorded vocabulary
Aubin & 18c gap
Aubin & early-18c gap
Anna Seward
Seward’s poetry
Justified neglect?
Seward’s unrecorded vocabulary
Seward’s new words or senses (poetry)
Seward’s antedatings (poetry)
Seward’s postdatings (poetry)
Seward: filling 18c gap
Seward: 18c top-up
Seward’s letters
Seward and first quotations
Seward and hapax legomena
Seward and OED3
Women’s distinctive vocabulary
Distaff and kitchen
Courtship and marriage
Men and women compared
Dictionaries
Usage and correctness (initial references)
Sex and gender (initial notes & references)
Newspapers
OED editions
Overview
Which edition contains what?
OED Online
Re-launched OED Online
Loss of OED2
Search tools and links
Links to HTOED
Case study: terms for lesbian(ism)
Continuous change
OED1 (1884-1928)
First Supplement (1933)
Second Supplement (1972-86)
OED2
OED3
Historical background
Overview
Johnson’s dictionary (1755)
Pleasure and instruction
Historical development of a word
‘Genealogy of sentiments’
Explaining meaning
Identifying and discriminating meaning
Raw material for a dictionary
Richardson’s dictionary (1836-7)
Replacing definitions
Extended range
Treasures
OED1 intellectual climate
19th-century historical lexicography
Fossil poetry
Patriotism
Literature and the nation
Language and morality
Language and usage
OED1’s compilation
1859 Proposal
FJF’s notebook
List of books 1861
Muller's advice 1878
Directions to readers 1879
Defining basic words
Spoof slip for radium
Murray’s death
OED1’s completion
The Periodical 1928
1928 banquet
Programme
Speeches
Seating plan
1933 Supplement
1933 lunch
The Periodical 1934
Photos
Overview
OED1 up to 1928
Murray in his scriptorium
Murray’s Oxford house
Blue plaque
Old Ashmolean staff
Murray’s successors
Other editors 1915
Encaenia 1928
Craigie aged
Burchfield’s Supplement 1957-1986
40 Walton Crescent
Supplement staff 1971
Quotations room
Burchfield 1972
Printing Supplement vol 1
Supplement staff 1974-6
Supplement staff 1982
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Posted on
10 April 2018