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1boldface
I've just made my first submission to the OED online.
I was trawling through volume one of my newly acquired print edition when I came across a reference to Anthony Trollope's relatively unknown novel, The Three Clerks (1858). I haven't read this one yet so I wandered over to my Trollope Society edition of the novels, picked it out, and started reading the first page. It's all about three clerks at the Weights and Measures Office in London (well, I said it was relatively unknown!). In a nod to the very recently published Little Dorrit Trollope describes the Weights and Measures Office as being "exactly antipodistic of the Circumlocution Office". Although it's obvious what he means by antipodistic I decided to look it up and found that it is not listed. 'Antipodal', 'antipodic' and 'antipodist' are there, but not 'antipodistic'.
I checked online and found that it is still not recorded to I sent it in via the OED Submission Form:
http://global.oup.com/uk/oedsubform/
You don't get a reply, but credible submissions are kept on file until that part of the alphabet is reached in the ongoing revision process. If the word appears in the future, I'll know that it was my submission (or that of a hundred thousand others) that put it there!
I was trawling through volume one of my newly acquired print edition when I came across a reference to Anthony Trollope's relatively unknown novel, The Three Clerks (1858). I haven't read this one yet so I wandered over to my Trollope Society edition of the novels, picked it out, and started reading the first page. It's all about three clerks at the Weights and Measures Office in London (well, I said it was relatively unknown!). In a nod to the very recently published Little Dorrit Trollope describes the Weights and Measures Office as being "exactly antipodistic of the Circumlocution Office". Although it's obvious what he means by antipodistic I decided to look it up and found that it is not listed. 'Antipodal', 'antipodic' and 'antipodist' are there, but not 'antipodistic'.
I checked online and found that it is still not recorded to I sent it in via the OED Submission Form:
http://global.oup.com/uk/oedsubform/
You don't get a reply, but credible submissions are kept on file until that part of the alphabet is reached in the ongoing revision process. If the word appears in the future, I'll know that it was my submission (or that of a hundred thousand others) that put it there!
2LesMiserables
Nice work Boldface. I assume due to the date it would not be in the additional volumes?
I see it used here also
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9gRAAAAYAAJ&dq=antipodistic&output=...
I see it used here also
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9gRAAAAYAAJ&dq=antipodistic&output=...
3boldface
>2 LesMiserables:
The Additional volumes contain words of all periods if, for some reason, they have been accidentally omitted. But in any case, all the material in the three Additional volumes is now incorporated into the online Dictionary. I did a full text word search on that and it came up negative.
As for your quotation (1834), it predates mine (1858), so you should submit it. The more citations, the more likely it is to be included in the future.
The Additional volumes contain words of all periods if, for some reason, they have been accidentally omitted. But in any case, all the material in the three Additional volumes is now incorporated into the online Dictionary. I did a full text word search on that and it came up negative.
As for your quotation (1834), it predates mine (1858), so you should submit it. The more citations, the more likely it is to be included in the future.
