OUP hunts for new blog phrases (From Oxford Mail)

OUP hunts for new blog phrases

9:00am Sunday 22nd July 2007

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Staff at Oxford University Press have started monitoring the use of English in web logs to find new words.

Lexicographers responsible for updating the Oxford English Corpus, which provides the basis for its dictionaries, will trawl through some 70 million 'blogs' in their search.

And with 120,000 new ones created every day, they may be in for quite a search.

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