― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)
As long as you have an unabridged you're good to go...though I believe OED is supposed to be good for showing the examples of words as they occur over the course of literary history...
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)
at home i have the shorter oed, which is surely the best dictionary at affordable prices (esp as i got mine for £30).
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)
Can someone who has access to the OED online check to see if they've updated their entry on "gaydar"? To sum up the case, first discussed here: the OED gave 1982 as date of first citation, but upon further examination, the source cited appeared to be from 1992 rather than 1982; in addition, Sassy magazine used the word in 1988. (And suzy used it in conversation before then.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)
still cites tie 1982 Village Voice piece, followed by:
1989 Re: Call for Discussion: soc.motss.college in soc.motss (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Mar., I was thinking, this gay/straight stuff is just like mismatched impedances. They don't receive our signals, and they bounce right back, attenuated, and then we think they're giving the signal. I'm sure it like is on some sort of gaydar thing.
worse still is that underrated aerosmith's 'gayhole' from that thread isn't here in the online version. But congrats to my bros Deleuze & Guattari for 'rhizomatic' being one of the latest new additions, even if they inexplicably aren't specifically cited in the entry.
oh god I'm going to be looking through this for hours now.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)
cites the.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)
Thanks! I don't remember if I cited the '89 Usenet post in my e-mail to them. I don't think so, though, since Sassy was the first written usage I could find. I'm guessing they just haven't gotten around to fixing the entry.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)
They've fixed it now, btw. Here's the earliest citation:
1988 Philadelphia Inquirer 23 Mar. b7/1 Making use of what he called ‘gaydar’, Richard A. Friend moved to the center of a stage...and scanned the audience of about 60 students and staff... Friend, an instructor in human sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd he would point out all the lesbians and gays in the audience and have them stand up.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:38 (thirteen years ago)
So, ball's in your court, Suzy.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:45 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/26/former-oed-editor-deleted-words
shocking and (almost) appalling, tbh
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:47 (thirteen years ago)
butthurt has been added to the OED.
http://time.com/4010748/oxford-dictionary-update-2015/
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:58 (ten years ago)
so has awesomesauce
that's really cool, gotta start using that more
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:59 (ten years ago)
Let the pwnage begin.
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:16 (ten years ago)