From: Ferren MacIntyre (Ferren.MacIntyre at domain nuigalway.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Oct 2001 - 01:57:44 IST
>How much work do you think goes into say the Oxford Dictionary?
A lot! And a lot of it is a labor of love. There are volunteers all over
the world who make a hobby of, say, finding earlier historical instances of
word usage than OED has listed. If you coin a new scientific word, the
editors appreciate a copy of the paper where it is first used.
--Ferren
The love of money is the root of all evil. Diogenes
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