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Charlotte Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up-to-date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices.Brewer, Charlotte is the author of 'Treasurehouse of Language The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary', published 2008 under ISBN 9780300124293 and ISBN 0300124295.
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