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A Rather Interesting Word: "Set"

The word "set" has over 100 meanings or uses. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com
  

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[nq:1]The word "set" has over 100 meanings or uses. , AUE) it's celebrated as having provoked the longest entry in the OED. Mike.

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  • [nq:1]The word "set" has over 100 meanings or uses.
  • , AUE) it's celebrated as having provoked the longest entry in the OED.
  • Mike.
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[nq:1]The word "set" has over 100 meanings or uses. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
In these parts (sc., AUE) it's celebrated as having provoked the longest entry in the OED.

Mike.
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[nq:2]The word "set" has over 100 meanings or uses. - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com[/nq]
[nq:1]In these parts (sc., AUE) it's celebrated as having provoked the longest entry in the OED.[/nq]
Although this is no longer the case in OED Online, at least at the moment. It'll probably catch back up when we get around to revising it.
Jesse Sheidlower
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[nq:2]In these parts (sc., AUE) it's celebrated as having provoked the longest entry in the OED.[/nq]
[nq:1]Although this is no longer the case in OED Online, at least at the moment. It'll probably catch back up when we get around to revising it. Jesse Sheidlower OED[/nq]
How fascinating if it /were/ to get overtaken in the "final" version! (Not that I'd wish for finality from or in the OE
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