Posted by John Nichols on September 01, 2003 at 13:45:53 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.
Dear All:
I recieved a reply from the OED.
I thought the Board should know it is having an impact on the World's greatest dictionary.
Well done all
John Yours sincerely,
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:01:41 +0100 (BST)
From: OED research materials
Reply-To: OED research materials
Subject: Re: Turmot - word.
To: nicholsj@tamu.edu
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Dear Dr Nichols,
Thank you for your e-mail of 20 August.
The examples you have passed on to us of
Arthur Ransome's use of 'turmot' with
reference to a person are of great interest
to us, and I have copied them to our research
files to be available to our editors when
they work on the revision of the OED's entry
for 'turnip'. At present we only cite one
example, from Dickens, for this sense (OED's
current sense number 3c) so it will be very
useful to know of Ransome's use of the word
on this way. As a dialect spelling variant
it is also most interesting.
Thank you very much for drawing it to our
attention.
Juliet E. A. Field (Mrs)
(Senior Editor, Oxford English Dictionary