Editing Oxford English Dictionary (section)

=== Additions series ===
The supplements and their integration into the second edition were a great improvement to the ''OED'' as a whole, but it was recognized that most of the entries were still fundamentally unaltered from the first edition. Much of the information in the dictionary published in 1989 was already decades out of date, though the supplements had made good progress towards incorporating new vocabulary. Yet many definitions contained disproven scientific theories, outdated historical information, and moral values that were no longer widely accepted.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=http://oed.com/archive/oed2-preface/hist-new-oed-3.html |title=Preface to the Second Edition: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary: The New Oxford English Dictionary project |date=1989 |access-date=16 December 2003 |website=Oxford English Dictionary Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031216002745/http://oed.com/archive/oed2-preface/hist-new-oed-3.html |archive-date=16 December 2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/28/159/index.html |title=Which edition contains what? |date=28 December 2011 |access-date=7 June 2014 |website=Examining the OED |last=Brewer |first=Charlotte |author-link=Charlotte Brewer |archive-date=28 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428032907/http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/28/159/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, the supplements had failed to recognize many words in the existing volumes as obsolete by the time of the second edition's publication, meaning that thousands of words were marked as current despite no recent evidence of their use.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/29/160/index.html |title=Review of OED3 |date=28 December 2011 |access-date=7 June 2014 |website=Examining the OED |last=Brewer |first=Charlotte |author-link=Charlotte Brewer |archive-date=28 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428063559/http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/29/160/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Accordingly, it was recognized that work on a third edition would have to begin to rectify these problems.<ref name=":3" /> The first attempt to produce a new edition came with the ''Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series,'' a new set of supplements to complement the ''OED2'' with the intention of producing a third edition from them.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oed.com/archive/additions-1/introduction.html |title=Preface to the Additions Series (vol. 1): Introduction |date=1993 |access-date=16 May 2008 |website=Oxford English Dictionary Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516214647/http://www.oed.com/archive/additions-1/introduction.html |archive-date=16 May 2008}}</ref> The previous supplements appeared in alphabetical instalments, whereas the new series had a full A–Z range of entries within each individual volume, with a complete alphabetical index at the end of all words revised so far, each listed with the volume number which contained the revised entry.<ref name=":4" />

However, in the end only three ''Additions'' volumes were published this way, two in 1993 and one in 1997,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-19-861292-6 |location=Oxford |volume=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-19-861299-5 |location=Oxford |volume=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-19-860027-5 |location=Oxford |volume=3}}</ref> each containing about 3,000 new definitions.<ref name=facts2004 /> The possibilities of the [[World Wide Web]] and new computer technology in general meant that the processes of researching the dictionary and of publishing new and revised entries could be vastly improved. New text search databases offered vastly more material for the editors of the dictionary to work with, and with publication on the Web as a possibility, the editors could publish revised entries much more quickly and easily than ever before.<ref name=Simpson2011>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVJmnSJrDc |title=The Making of the OED, 3rd ed. |date=31 January 2011 |access-date=7 June 2014 |last=Simpson |first=John |website=[[YouTube]] |type=video |archive-date=15 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515030754/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVJmnSJrDc |url-status=live}}</ref> A new approach was called for, and for this reason it was decided to embark on a new, complete revision of the dictionary.
* ''Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series'' Volume 1 ({{ISBN|978-0-19-861292-6}}): Includes over 20,000 illustrative quotations showing the evolution of each word or meaning.
:*?th impression (1994-02-10)
* ''Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series'' Volume 2 ({{ISBN|978-0-19-861299-5}})
:*?th impression (1994-02-10)
* ''Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series'' Volume 3 ({{ISBN|978-0-19-860027-5}}): Contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world. Published by Clarendon Press.
:*?th impression (1997-10-09)