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Mike Lyle wrote:
> > ...apostrophe firmly in place. I would bet, however, that this is
> not
> > a typo on behalf of OED staff, but that they scanned the original
> > printing and that's how it first appeared. A Google search turned
> up
> > news of a critical edition of Major Barbara, but from what I
> > understand, OED policy in that case is still to scan the first
> edition
> > (be it UK or US) into their database.
>
> I don't think they "scan". For good or ill. Are you in a position to
> correct me on this point?
Uh-huh. But then again, so are you.
http://www.oed.com/about/oed3-preface/accuracy.html
I cannot verify my tentative claims about OED policy regarding critical
editions/authoritative texts, however. However, when I was in college,
I had to work with details from Fredson Bower's text of Stephen Crane's
_Maggie_ and I remember reading about that OED policy somewhere in my
journal research: in point of fact, I believe it was in _Notes and
Queries_, in a footnote to some information about how the University of
Virginia Press shares information with the OED Project. Unfortunately,
I no longer have access to that publication.
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