No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Tue Mar 31 17:38:27 CEST 2015


Mark Davis 🍸 wrote:

>>> "Oedict" works even better IMO, but I recalled someone having some
>>> objection to _that_. Just pick anything, AFAIC.
>>
>> It looks like Old English Dictionary to me.
>
> Still better than the unfortunate oxendict (pronounced "oxen-dicked").
>
> Since OED on its own is so distinctive (for English speakers), how
> about that with a suffix, eg "oedstyle" or something like it?

All this churn over the subtag value is what makes me think we already
have the best tag ("en-GB-oed") and should just leave it alone.

The ROI for this project already seemed minimal, and it's not getting
any better.

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Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸



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