[lbo-talk] Marx and Engels On Literature and Art

[Carrol Cox]

If I recall correctly, the rule of thumb (at one time) was that probably a
word had been in oral circulation at least 35 years before its first
appearance in the OED. Can't remember the source of this: I could be making
it up.

Carrol

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According to my buddy at OUP, they do phrases too. 

Joanna 

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The OED likes to celebrate the 'word of the year' but the language is
evolving so fast there ought to be a prize for 'syntactical construction of
the year', though that is admittedly a clumsy phrase. 'Top Syntagm?' 

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