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Wordhunt was a 2005 appeal to the general public for help in providing citations for 50 selected recent words, and produced antedatings for many. The results were reported in a BBC TV series, Balderdash and Piffle. The OED ' s readers contribute quotations: the department currently receives about 200,000 a year.

OED currently contains over 500,000 entries. The online OED is updated on a quarterly basis, with the addition of new words and senses, and the revision of existing entries.
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