Archive for April 17th, 2008

OED vs. Wikipedia

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

“[T]he Oxford English Dictionary, arguably the greatest reference work in the English language…found its origins in a wiki model, whereby scholars put out the word to English speakers far and wide that they would welcome hard evidence of the earliest appearances of English words.”
Garrett pointed me to a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s […]


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