Stacy Hague

Get ready to ride the new wave of the big kahuna of language as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) prepares to go on-line in March 2000. Since 1992, all 20 volumes of the OED have been available on CD-ROM, a smarter way to reference the relatively new second edition (published in 1989) than with weight training, a step ladder and a magnifying glass. Now the goal is to get the last word in words expanded to include more than 1,000 new and revised entries every quarter.