There is a lot of mystery behind the Oxford English Dictionary, but I can tell you for sure that it is not compiled in a Gringotts-style castle, all the word slips hidden in secret stone wall compartments, with a team of bearded, vitamin D-deficient lexicographers hunched over great dusty volumes. Today, the OED team is releasing new batch of updates, so I thought I’d share some videos that shed light into the revision process.
Revisions and Potato Salad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-n4zjkqxyk
Megalosaurus (and other scientific words)
But what are the updates?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zY-bXIlJ00
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