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Overview of the OED Last Volume:1928 Pages:15,487 Entries:252,200 Definitions:414,800 Quotations used:1,861200 Based on:5,000,000 quotations Republished:1933 Volumes:12 Added supplement:866 pages Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, p. 51.
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OED Time Line 1 1860-1861Herbert Coleridge, first editor 1862?-?Frederick Furnivall, second editor 1878-1915James Murray, third editor 1884First publication of part of letter A (A to Ant) 1885-1923Henry Bradley, additional editor 1901William Alexander Craigie, additional editor 1914Charles Talbut Onions, additional editor 1928Last volume (V-Z) published 1933Retitled, republished, with supplement Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 48-58.
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OED Time Line 2 1957Robert Burchfield, editor for 2nd edition 1972-19864-volume supplement 1984Edmund Weiner, editor (integrated 2nd ed./elect) 1986John Sinclair, co-editor Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 48-58.
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OED Time Line 3 1989OED2 published in book form Volumes: 20 Pages: 21,730 Text: 59 million words of text Entries: more than half million defined Quotations: more 2.4 million 1992CD-ROM OED2 (searchable) 1999second version CD-ROM OED2 2010OED3 due (part on line now; preface Wikipedia projects a 2037 completion date) Jackson, Howard. 2002. Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 48-58.
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