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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
English in UK
Join the BBC Wordhunt. Your Language Needs You!
You might be interested to know that the BBC Wordhunt was launched just over a week ago and can be found at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt. This appeal is at the heart of a major new series being made by Takeaway Media for BBC 2 in the UK, in conjunction with the Oxford English Dictionary.
We are appealing to members of the public to help us rewrite the dictionary by identifying the origin and first usage of 50 words and phrases. These range from mullet to minger, and from boffin to bomber jacket. For a full list visit or http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt.
So far we have received an excellent response and have antedated several terms already, but the debate is still raging over the Full Monty and Codswallop. Can you help?
Yours in anticipation,
Kim Lomax
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt. This appeal is at the heart of a major new series being made by Takeaway Media for BBC 2 in the UK, in conjunction with the Oxford English Dictionary.
We are appealing to members of the public to help us rewrite the dictionary by identifying the origin and first usage of 50 words and phrases. These range from mullet to minger, and from boffin to bomber jacket. For a full list visit or http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt.
So far we have received an excellent response and have antedated several terms already, but the debate is still raging over the Full Monty and Codswallop. Can you help?
Yours in anticipation,
Kim Lomax
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[nq:1]We are appealing to members of the public to help us rewrite the dictionary by identifying the origin and first ... These range from mullet to minger, and from boffin to bomber jacket. [/nq] Some of the dates seem surprisingly late.
- [nq:1]We are appealing to members of the public to help us rewrite the dictionary by identifying the origin and first ...
- These range from mullet to minger, and from boffin to bomber jacket.
- [/nq] Some of the dates seem surprisingly late.
- "Pass the parcel" not recorded in print before 1967?
- 1975 for "mushy peas" is not at all astonishing as we Northernconsumers of this great delicacy were completely illiterate until then.
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[nq:1]We are appealing to members of the public to help us rewrite the dictionary by identifying the origin and first ... These range from mullet to minger, and from boffin to bomber jacket. For a full list visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt or
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[nq:2]We are appealing to members of the public to help ... bomber jacket. For a full list visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt or http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt.[/nq]
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