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to hull
and back
Mags Meanderings:
From Som Tam
To Mushy Peas
a voluminous portion
A change around this week with our ‘word of the week’
first on the agenda.
The word is fascicle, which can be used in more than
one context. Either to refer to a bundle of structures,
such as nerve or muscle fibres, or to mean a separately
published instalment of a book or other printed work.
It is the latter definition which is relevant, as we take a
look at the Oxford English Dictionary. Not the concise
version (which is still affordable) but the full work in
book form.
First published in 10 volumes between 1884 and 1928,
the ‘OED’ as it is known aims to provide the origins and
history of words, as well as their meanings and how
those meanings may have changed over the years. A
mammoth task far beyond the original expectations of
its’ huge team of compilers, there was to be another 61
years before the second edition appeared