Virginia Woolf: Lexicographer – a paper exploring her association with dictionaries
https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fowler2002.pdf

#VirginiaWoolf #dictionary #OED #lexicography #language #literature

Does anyone have access to the #OED who can look up the earliest citations for the word "byline" (or more likely "by-line") for me?

Wikipedia cites a 2012 article that says 1926's "The Sun Also Rises" is the earliest it shows up in print, but I've found newspaper articles that use it going back to at least 1915.

#linguistics

I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"

Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.

#language #words #grammar #OED

Ich muss unsere Verwaltung ja auch mal loben! Ich habe um 12:15 Uhr zwei Anfragen gestellt und habe um 13 Uhr zwei Antworten, bei der eine die Bitte bereits vollständig erledigt hat!
Da es in diesem Fall um wesentliche Infos fürs Leitungshandeln geht, ist das eine wirklich gute Sache!
#oeffentlicheVerwaltung #oed

I decided to indulge myself and subscribe to the OED online. Great fun! My blog post:

https://mypointbeing.com/2023/04/07/an-indulgence/

#blog #blogpost #language #dictionaries #OED

The first part of the Oxford English Dictionary was published today in 1885 by the Oxford University Press.

So here's a #postcard to commemorate, showing Printing Machines, Ancient and Modern, of the Press

#HigherEducation
#HigherEducationPostcard
#OUP
#OED
#History
#Printing

New entries/senses in the OED include air fryer, final girl, mononym (e.g., Adele, Pele), obvs, performative, pinkie swear, shithousery, and trackable:
https://public.oed.com/blog/so-its-the-oed-update-obvs/ #words #dictionary #OED #language

Daily #oedantedatings no. 949:

4-year antedating of wrapping-gown ‘night-gown’ (in #OED from 1709)

on Satterday Sept. 8 last Mrs. Bargrave being in her little house alone She heard a little kind of a Rustle (It had just struck 12 at noon) & looking towards ye Door in came Mrs. V. w[i]th a Wrapping Gown & held it together w[i]th her hand to across, an handsome suit of Night Cloaths & hood & Silk handk. tyed about her neck. (1705)

‘The apparition of Mrs Veal’, Archaeologia Cantiana 73, p. 155

Daily #oedantedatings no. 948:

48-year antedating of orris work ‘embroidery of gold or silver lace’ (in #OED from c.1710)

In the best Chamber: Item ffive peeces of Tapestry, hanginges, a foote Carpet of Turky woorke, nyne Chaires of Orresse worke, one high bedsted ... (1662)

Robert H. Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of #Maidstone [Part 2]’, Archaeologia Cantiana 73 (1960), pp. 125–41, at p. 136

Daily #oedantedatings no. 947:

130-year antedating of shire-house ‘county hall, building where county assizes are held’ (in #OED from 1759)

One parcell of Woodland adjoyninge unto Pickenden Hoath neare the Shire house containing 2 acres three roods 2 daie work and 3 perches. In the parishes of Boxley and Maidstone in the occupation of John Warren. (1629)

Robert H. Goodsall, ‘The Astleys of #Maidstone [Part 1]’, Archaeologia Cantiana 72 (1959), pp. 1–17, at p. 16

Daily #oedantedatings no. 946:

256-year antedating of soaper ‘soap-boiler, soapmaker’ (in #OED from c.1225)

æt Sapere tún (969 [11th-century copy])
sapertune (1045 [18th-century copy])
[Saberton in Beckford]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Gloucestershire 2:43–4 (Sawyer 1324 and 1397)

Daily #oedantedatings no. 945:

9-year antedating of eke (n.1 sense 2a) ‘tag to a bellrope’ (in #OED from 1549)

Item payde to Harry Berrege for iii payere of ekes to the belles – xiid. (c.1540) [Baldock]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, #Hertfordshire Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 56

I'm posting this without a picture, cos I have no idea where such a tag went, or what it looked like, or what its purpose was!

Daily #oedantedatings no. 944:

18-year antedating of jail money ‘levy payable to the high constable of a hundred for the maintenance of a jail’ (in #OED from 1600)

Item to Nevell for gaole money the 29 of June [1580] – iis. iid. (1582)

Item payde for the gayle monye – iis. iid. (1583)

Item for the jayle monye layde oute – vis. vid. (1584) [Ashwell]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, #Hertfordshire Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), pp. 19, 21, 22

Daily #oedantedatings no. 943:

27-year antedating of cohabitor (in #OED from 1628)

Item for presentinge of Edward Weaver and his cohabiter –iiijd. (1601)

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, #Hertfordshire Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 46

Daily #oedantedatings no. 942:

248-year antedating of homecroft ‘infield’ (in #OED from a.1500)

Homcrofte (1252) [Stanwell]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Middlesex, p. 208

Homcroft (13th)
EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 428

Homcroft (1304) [Home Croft in Alkington]
EPNS Place-Names of #Gloucestershire 2, p. 210

Homcrofte (1347) [Meesden]
EPNS Place-Names of #Hertfordshire, p. 300

Daily #oedantedatings no. 941:

6-year antedating of keeper (n. sense 6a) ‘clasp, catch’ (in #OED from 1578)

Item paid for nayles for churche gate latches and kepers – vid. (1572) [Ashwell]

Anthony Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, #Hertfordshire Record Publications vol. 1 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985), p. 14

Daily #oedantedatings no. 940:

139-year antedating of grass-croft (in #OED from 1349)

Grascrofte (c.1210) [Steeple Barton]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Oxfordshire, p. 250

Grascroft (1224)
EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 427

Grascroft (13th c.)
EPNS Place-Names of #Worcestershire, p. 389

le Grescroftsykes (1310) [Barlow]
EPNS Place-Names of #Derbyshire, p. 205

Grascroft (1323) [Bourton near Banbury]
EPNS Place-Names of Oxfordshire, p. 415

Daily #oedantedatings no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in #OED from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Cambridgeshire, p. 313

Daily #oedantedatings no. 939:

343-year antedating of sextry barn ‘tithe-barn belonging to a sacristan’ (in #OED from 1843)

Sextry barn (15th c.) [Ely]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Cambridgeshire, p. 313

Daily #oedantedatings no. 938:

13-year antedating of bleach-croft ‘enclosure used for bleaching cloth’ (in #OED from 1852)

Bleach Croft (1839) [Ardsley]

#EPNS Place-Names of the West Riding of #Yorkshire 1, p. 291