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An Appeal to the Scientific Community
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 06:19:08 -0500
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 09:55:11 GMT From: ahughes%pride () oup co uk (Alan Hughes) To: farber () central cis upenn edu An Appeal to the Scientific Community Work has recently begun at Oxford University Press on a comprehensive revision of the Oxford English Dictionary, to be published in 2005. As part of the process of revising and updating the Dictionary, we would like to encourage scientists who have information relevant to the OED to draw it to our attention. Such information may include: 1) the coinages of particular scientific words 2) factual errors in their definitions 3) scientific words and meanings not in the OED 4) earlier referenced examples of words and meanings already treated in the dictionary (and later examples of those described as obsolete) Category 4 is especially useful: the OED is a historical dictionary which attempts to trace every word and meaning back to its earliest known use in the English language, as well as giving references to the coinages of foreign precursors of English words. As an example, Professor Joshua Lederberg has mailed us about the omission of C. S. Peirce's philosophical sense of `abduction', not recorded in the OED, and his own coinage of the words `eugram' and `eugraphy'. Please email oed3 () oup co uk, or write to the Chief Science Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. And pass this message on to whomever may be interested. Alan Hughes Chief Science Editor January 1994
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