Timeline for How do language researchers find the first written mention of a word?
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| Sep 30, 2021 at 2:38 | comment | added | ClosetGeek | The story of William Chester Minor was a good read | |
| May 31, 2019 at 13:10 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 29, 2019 at 13:52 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Even as an editor of American English, I found the line "it's often easy to beat pages that haven't been updated for the third edition of the OED" to be confusing. In my opinion, if you edited that line in your answer, it would make an already good answer excellent. | |
| May 24, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | @MadsSkjern what I mean by that is that it’s easy to find something earlier than what the OED has if the page hasn’t been updated. | |
| May 24, 2019 at 15:23 | comment | added | Mads Skjern | Fantastic answer :) However, I don't understand the last part with Google Books, "beating pages" and OED3. Could you explain please? | |
| May 24, 2019 at 14:21 | history | answered | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |