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December 10, 2004

HERE COMES OED'S FIRST "SEX IN THE CITY" CITATION

The latest OED Newsletter is available online.  We're especially partial to the "Appeals" section, where words short of documentary evidence are posted. 

Usually the appeal is for an earlier example than our current earliest (e.g. ‘antedate 1970’ for a word for which our earliest example comes from 1970), but sometimes the appeal is for an interdating where there is a large gap in the OED’s quotation evidence (e.g. ‘interdate 1589-1910’).

Some of the current Appeals include:

posedown (n.: the final stage in a bodybuilding competition) antedate 1978
scrunchie (n.) antedate 1989

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[문화일보 2005-06-15 15:41]

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이 때문에 배달업종이나 중대형 점포의 테이블관리에 특히 유용 한 프로그램이다. 치킨이나 피자집 외에도 중국집이나 노래방, 대리운전 등 서비스 업종에 이르기까지 사용할 수 있는 곳은 다 양하다.

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