I thought that the OED was updated yearly - on checking their website, I see that the online version is updated every three months. The OED also has its own BBC TV program (Balderdash & Piffle) that invites people to propose earlier usages and new words. Ah - the web site has a 'Contribute to the OED' page with a 'New Etymological and Dating Evidence' section:
http://www.oed.com/readers/research.html Does someone want to update the OED lute-wise? Andrew On 10 Dec 2009, at 15:02, Stephen Fryer wrote: > Andrew Gibbs wrote: >> Thank you Dennis - and Joseph - the 1295 date tallies with Janin >> Le Lutour's beginning service as a minstrel to the Prince of Wales >> - presumably it's in this list of musicians employed in the year >> 1295 that the word 'lute' appears. but the OED doesn't know about >> it?.. > > Remember how long ago the OED was compiled. The 1295 information > was probably not available then. > > Stephen Fryer -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
