No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?

Mark Davis ☕️ mark at macchiato.com
Tue Mar 31 19:48:21 CEST 2015


I disagree. en-GB-oed would be useful, if it were
not—unfortunately—"irregular".

I would rather take any of the suggestions so far (even "oxendict") rather
than leave it as is, where it is (to us) useless.


Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

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