In addition more “foreign” yet common words were included and, with circumspection, words from varieties other than standard Afrikaans. HAT5 is the first edition of which the lemma selection was based on a representative, comprehensive and balanced electronic corpus. Odendal would have retired from the editorial team after the completion of the fourth edition of the "HAT", but for various reasons stayed on till HAT5 was completed. At the launch of HAT5, on 14 September 2005 at the Spier Estate outside Stellenbosch, he was honoured for his more than 30 years of commitment and dedication to the "Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal" and bid farewell. In October 2007 Pearson Education appointed Jana Luther, inter alia former senior editor of the "Pharos Afrikaans-English-English-Afrikaans Dictionary" (2005) and co-editor of the "Pharos Afrikaans-English-English-Afrikaans Concise Dictionary" (2007), as dictionary compiler and publisher. In 2008 she joined Gouws as editor for the preparation of HAT6. A CD-ROM – "e-HAT 2009" – was launched with the third impression of HAT5 in March 2009. This electronic dictionary contains the complete alphabetical list, list of abbreviations and list of geographical names and their derivatives of the fifth edition of the "Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal" (of which the third impression got a new cover and the title was truncated to "Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal"). Typographical and spelling errors that were brought to the editors’ attention since the publication of the fifth edition in 2005 were corrected in the electronic dictionary and, in accordance with the "Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls" of the Afrikaans language commission of the SA Academy, certain improvements were applied.  "e-HAT 2009" is the first step on the road to a new, sixth, improved and comprehensively revised edition of the "HAT" that is intended to mirror contemporary Afrikaans. The work on this new edition has been ongoing at Pearson South Africa since 2008 and was nearing completion at the beginning of 2015. To assist in the preparation of HAT6, Pearson in 2012 appointed Fred Pheiffer, a former colleague of Luther and likewise co-editor of the abovementioned two Pharos dictionaries.