No words are being removed from the OED, precisely because
it would affect its historical value.

Yes, which explains the dictionary's previous name, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, or the NED.

Nuncle (I once ate at Mexican restaurant in Oakland with Jesse S., Dave Wilton, Mark Liberman, and others) Knucklehead

[Addendum: About the form xyst, I feel certain that it was probably promoted in the OED1 to lemma-hood to beat out some other, less interesting word, from the spot of last word in the OED. Vary few of the other strange spellings and forms of have their own entries, so why zyst? Maybe the editor of that final fascicle was Kentish.]

Jay (Jus' speculatin') Beaux

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Ceci n'est pas un seing.