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world 13 December 2010 600,000 words … 3 million quotations …
more than 1000 years of the English language. New pathways
through the story of English shed light on the evolution of our
language. The relaunch of the OED Online sees the first ever
online publication of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED, now
fully integrated into the OED Online. If Prince William had been
asking Kate Middleton to marry him three hundred years ago, he
might well have asked her to join giblets, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, which is relaunched online today by
Oxford University Press. Alternatively he might have suggested
that they buckle, a word used by the poet, John Dryden, in 1693,
meaning to unite oneself in wedlock. And if people had been
looking for clues for the date for the Royal wedding, then they
could have checked one of the OED Online’s many sources, the
author JG Lockhart who, in 1823, declared that “May… is the only
month that nobody in the n