At 80, OED still the ‘greatest’
At a panel discussion yesterday celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary, Yale Law School Associate Librarian Fred Shapiro labeled the OED — considered the ultimate authority on the English language — the “greatest humanistic project in the world.”
The panel, organized by University Library Communications Coordinator Geoffrey Little and co-sponsored by the Yale Library and Oxford University Press, drew about 100 people to the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcoan auditorium. Panelists included Shapiro; Simon Winchester, author of “The Meaning of Everything: The...
I once enticed a girl to my grad school apartment with promises to show her my OED.
True story.
We've been married for 10 years.