Wednesday, 28th June 2006

Dictionaries: The June Issue of the Oxford English Dictionary Newsletter is Now Online; Google As a Verb Now in Oxford English Dictionary

Articles in the newsletter include:
+ Harmless drudgery - getting started at the OED (the story of a new OED employee)
+ Interesting antedatings
+ Thought-provoking snippets from the OED quotation files

Also, on June 15th, the OED added several new entries and updates were made to the dictionary. One list is available here. New terms include "yada yada," "geocache," and "Energizer bunny."

The search-related news is that Google (as a verb) is now a "draft entry (June 2006)" in this legendary and authoritative English dictionary.

intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.
trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.

This is the second entry for Google as a verb. An early 20th century OED definition:

intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence googler, a googly bowler

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