The OED is incorrect?
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OED (and hence SOED) are descriptive, not prescriptive, and as such only record accepted meanings of the term at the time the entry is compiled. His older SOED edition presumably omits meaning 2 in the full dictionary because it was not common at time of writing.pic.twitter.com/hzBQTx8wsz
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So. To recapitulate - this gentleman believes that because he has a thesaurus, he knows more about any domain than actual experts in it? I guess magical thinking of words power back at it again, but props to him on innovative use of something that is not a bible.
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