But since that time , as reported in an oed newsletter , the word has been found in a 19th century folklore journal .
不过在此之后,据《牛津英语词典》时事通讯报道,这一单词已在19世纪的一本民俗杂志中找到。
Or as the oed puts it a powwow was a " priest , shaman or healer . "
或者就像oed写的那样,powwow是:“神职人员,巫师,或巫医”。
The embrace of the parlance of the internet by the oxford english dictionary , or oed , is not just affirmation of the plasticity of the english language .
oed,也就是牛津英文字典能够接受词汇的网络用法不仅仅是对英语语言可塑性的肯定。
For example , oed found a quotation for omg in a personal letter from 1917 , and fyi ( for your information ) originated in the language of memoranda in 1941 .
As with most french words mess actually goes back to latin and the oed even takes it back further to indo-european .
真如大多数法语单词一样,mess实际上可以追溯到拉丁语,《牛津英语词典》甚至更进一步追溯至印欧语。
Although there were only a handful of acronyms around when snafu was coined , and the oed online lists only 246 , there is one website out there that claims to offer almost three million acronyms and definitions .
The oed is in a unique position of authority because tolkien actually worked there for a few years early in his career . Plus a later editor had studied under tolkien 's professorship .
When the oed was first released in electronic form on the cd-rom disk , author anthony burgess called the electronic big oxford " one of the major technological events of the century " .
The oed online in its newsletters section shows an image of some of jrr 's hand written notes concerning walrus and it is evident that he pondered over the word for some time .