The OED and Blogging

Peterme reports that the Oxford English Dictionary is considering including the word “blog,” which Peterme coined. But the OED can only accept printed pages as sources for word coinages.

How long do you give that rule before it’s amended in a flurry of embarrassment? I presume it was originally meant to keep the OED out of arguments about oral origins: “I was the first to use the word ‘magikal’ with a K. It was in a shouting match I had in 1964.” Now it just keeps the OED out of relevancy and accuracy.

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