Re: Merriam-Webster's Unabridged vs Oxford English Dictionary

Alex wrote:
2. W3 underwent last major update in 1961 while OED was
updated in 1997, so OED reflects current language more
accurately. However, W3 has more entries (~470K) than OED
(~291K).

That may be an irrelevant statistic: does it equate "entries" and
"words"? If it refers to lemmas (headwords for articles), it could be
grossly misleading, since American dictionaries put many compounds and
other derived forms under unique lemmas, but the OED puts many such
words under one lemma. In brief: Webster is a splitter, and the OED is
a grouper. For example, MW makes <bed>, <bed board>, and <bed sore>
separate articles; but the OED puts <bed-board> and <bed-sore> under
the heading <bed>. So in this little universe of words, MW has three
times as many "entries" as the OED, but so what?

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