It cracks me up that the OED was published in alphabetical order. I mean, I suppose that's the logical way to do it if you want to publish it piecemeal, but I would have assumed (if I hadn't read Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything and The Professor and the Madman) that they'd assemble the entire thing and then publish it in one monstrous go.
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