The new m-w.com

[nq:1]I hate the new M-W site. First of all it's ugly; but worse yet, they removed all the dates from their definitions! I wonder why? Maybe they were found to be innacurate. Does anyone know?[/nq]
Some of us have written to them to register our opinions. I suggest you do the same, because quantity might change their minds. The more, the merriamer.
Maybe you should ask them to explain w

[nq:1]I hate the new M-W site. First of all it's ugly; but worse yet, they removed all the dates from their definitions! I wonder why? Maybe they were found to be innacurate. Does anyone know?[/nq]
Welcome back, Andrew. So sorry you missed the thread on this topic. It's available at Google Groups. Try .

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[nq:2]I hate the new M-W site. First of all it's ... Maybe they were found to be innacurate. Does anyone know?[/nq]
[nq:1]Some of us have written to them to register our opinions. I suggest you do the same, because quantity might change their minds. The more, the merriamer.[/nq]
I, for one, would not complain about their dropping the dates as long as the date applies only to the oldest sen

[nq:1]Welcome back, Andrew. So sorry you missed the thread on this topic. It's available at Google Groups. Try .[/nq]
How embarrassing. I should have checked first. I attribute this one to laziness (the source of half of all my mistakes).

[nq:1]Oversight seems highly unlikely. They were presumably working from a copy of MWCD10 , which had the dates. It ... to the print copy and the premium online version. One of them could have been elimination of the inception dates.[/nq]
The website uses a script to generate the entries from a database. It would not take any manual work to remove all the dates; all they would have to do is ta

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} To test that surmise, we need a list of words that are in } MWCD11 and not in MWCD10 . We then need to look in the } new m-w.com to see if those words are there.
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That reminded me to look for "skosh" (which seems to have made the Oxford family of dictionaries since it was discussed in alt.usage.english some years ago). Sure enough, MWCD11 has it. I don't know about MWCD10.

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The ambiguity of "since" strikes again. SOED4=NSOED had "skosh" in 1993. The word itself dates to the early-mid 50s (MW: 1952, OED: 1955), so it is possible that some pre-1993

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[nq:1]No, you're right and I'm wrong. It is indeed in NSOED93. The dictionary I was thinking about came out a few years ago, a hefty one-volume dictionary. Was it the Oxford American Dictionary ?[/nq]
The hefty one-volume dictionary is the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001), and it has "skosh." The Oxford American Dictionary is much smaller, is a piece of ***, and I have no idea if it has "

[nq:1]But was it in MWCD10? I don't have one of those.[/nq]
It's in the on-line version. It's not in the Ninth (1986).

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