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OED

Postby brogine » Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:58 pm

Has anyone dealt with the OED? I submitted two quite respectable suggestions months ago and haven’t had any response.
My submissions were ‘derecho’, a Spanish word used by meteorologists for a type of storm, and so used for over 150 years; an unrepresented (biological) sense of ‘gymnopaedic’.
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Re: OED

Postby Slava » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:40 pm

As to why derecho is not in the OED, my brother has a theory: perhaps it is mostly used in the US, and the OED is for British English?

Derecho has, however, been treated by our Good Dr. Goodword, and here it is.
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Re: OED

Postby brogine » Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:00 am

Good point. But I do recall numerous ‘Chiefly US’ notations.

I just successfully searched ‘derecho’ on the BBC website.

Apart from whether or not there are other names about for the phenomenon, we note that while these storms are recorded on the European continent, over Britain they ain’t. Also, in this country, they appear well inland. Hot air masses, I suppose. Not unlike your correspondent!


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