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What that money will buy is the most pertinent fact about the OED2, at least to prospective customers. In essence, the new edition collates into alphabetical order three distinct elements: 1) the first OED, largely unchanged, although some errors and lapses have been corrected; 2) the contents of the four supplements to the first edition, which appeared between 1972 and 1986; and 3) roughly 5,000 words or expressions that have gained currency since the early...
...letters on his desk asking how many words entered English directly from German and how many references to the Malay language appear in the dictionary. Child's play, apparently. He is more interested in the broader possibilities. "It would be relatively straightforward," he says, "to compile dictionaries for distinct historical periods, to produce something, say, that would present only the vocabulary available to Shakespeare. The same thing could be done with reference to important legal documents, pointing out what the words of the laws actually meant at the time they were written...
...singers' soul-saving urgency flows from the Adventist teaching that the Second Coming could occur virtually any day now. Tenor Mark Kibble, who devised the distinct six-part sound, scans the drug scene and other manifest modern evils and concludes, "We are truly living in the last days before Christ comes. Because of that, we are more intense in showing people they need not be subject to this world...
...crucial to have an administrator who, like O'Neill, is outside the real estate business, who has close ties to the city and who is willing to listen. If the University fails to pick such a successor, choosing to think of itself as an entity separate and distinct from Cambridge, Harvard may do the city irreparable harm. And by hurting the surrounding community, the University will hurt itself...
...social changes produced by recriminalizing abortion doubtless would be enormous. But the most notable difference in an America without Roe could well be the transformation of American politics. If the high court overturns Roe, two distinct possibilities arise: Republicans could realize their ambition to capture a congressional majority, or they could lose their hold on the presidency...