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#110535 08/21/03 03:33 AM
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#110536 08/21/03 09:03 AM
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I wonder if Ms Pearsall has anyone to ork her cows.


#110537 08/21/03 10:16 AM
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ork her cows???
Here I am, intrigued and at a loss: can you give me a clue?

edit: As soon as I had posted it, the penny dropped..

#110538 08/21/03 11:30 AM
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I expect the cooper ate them, Faldo.


#110539 08/21/03 12:41 PM
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from the article: "The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published today.."

what are they referring to? it's certainly not OED3, which was "launched" in 2000 and is years away from completion--and may never be "published" in the classical sense.


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Alex's link in the bada bing thread gives us the clue, I think: ...the tome, the largest one-volume dictionary of English, the book's publishers said.
(My opinion is that it oughtta be ba-da-bing, or ba-da bing. Grr.)
Neat, that so many ref.'s to the publishing have been noted here.



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ah, latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, an entirely other thing.



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