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Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags



Both 'oed' and 'oxford' make sense, but 'oeddict' makes no sense at all, 
especially as it took some time for me to work out that it sports what 
some English people charmingly describe as a 'reduplicated' letter.
mg

Scríobh Nicholas Shanks:
> On 8 May 2008, at 1:11 AM, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
>
>> "oeddict" -- I might prefer "oxford" as the tag if there's not another
>> linguistic use for that term.
>
> I'd prefer oxford too, it's an extant word which is easier to say and 
> thus less prone to typos.
>
> — Nicholas


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