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Quarterly updates to OED Online

New edition: A to Z March 2008

On 13 March 2008 the New Edition was updated with revised entries in a series of discrete alphabetical ranges, as well as the addition of new entries from across the alphabet. In some ranges, not every entry was revised, as editorial effort was concentrated on the most significant groups of related words. In addition, about 30 virus names were revised across the alphabet.The table below shows the ranges which were covered, together with some of the more notable entries within them. For further details see the Chief Editor's commentary on the latest revision.

Revised ranges Major entries
a/an
  • a/an
aer to aery
  • aerial
  • aero-
  • aerobatics
  • aerodynamics
  • aeroplane
  • aerosol
  • aery
affect to affectuously
  • affect
  • affectation
  • affectionate
  • affection
air to airy-fairy
  • air
  • aircraft
  • airport
  • airship
  • airwave
  • airy
Amerasia to Amerind
  • America
  • American
  • American English
  • American Indian
  • Americanize
and
  • and
apple to applyment
  • apple
  • appliance
  • application
  • apply
ball to ballyhoo
  • ball
  • ballad
  • ballet
  • ballistic
  • balloon
  • ballot
  • also
  • bollock
  • bollix
cancer to chancrous
  • cancer
  • carcinogenic
  • carcinoma
  • chancre
climacta to climature
  • climacteric
  • climate
  • climatology
computability to computus
  • computation
  • compute
  • computer
culturable to culturology
  • cultural
  • culture
disable to disabling
  • disable
  • disability
eco to ecotype
  • eco-
  • eco-friendly
  • ecological
  • ecology
  • economic
  • economist
  • economy
effect to effectuousness
  • effect
  • effective
electral to electroweak
  • electric
  • electrical
  • electricity
  • electrolysis
  • electron
  • electronic
euro to eurozone
  • Euro-
  • European
evolute to Evolvulus
  • evolution
  • evolve
feck to F-word
  • feck
  • fuck
  • F-word
  • also
  • eff
free to free-woman
  • free
  • freedom
gaietry to gaylies
  • gay
gene to genotypically
  • gene
  • genetic
  • genetics
  • genome
  • genotype
girl to girly-girly
  • girl
heaven to heaven-wide
  • heaven
  • heavenly
hell to helly
  • hell
  • hellebore
  • Hellenist
  • hellish
  • hello
immune to immunology
  • immune
  • immunity
  • immunology
  • immunosuppressant
language to languorous
  • language
  • languid
  • languish
  • languor
love
  • love
  • lovely
  • lover
  • also
  • lurve
  • luv
sad to sadza
  • sad
  • saddle
  • sadomasochism
thing to thingy
  • thing
  • thingamabob
  • thingy
[viruses]
  • coronavirus
  • papillomavirus
  • retrovirus
  • rhinovirus

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