{"id":36,"date":"2008-02-09T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-03-27T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T11:52:09","slug":"google-enters-the-oxford-english-dictionary-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Google is in the OED &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A learned letter from David Oakey of the University of Birmingham in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/letters\/story\/0,,2254445,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> points out that whilst the new meaning of the verb &#8216;google&#8217; appears in the 2006 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>, it&#8217;s not the first time the word has been recorded. Earlier editions list &#8216;google&#8217; as a verb meaning to bowl a googly (1907) and as an obsolete variant of &#8216;goggle&#8217;. But I don&#8217;t suppose that back then they&#8217;d thought of the <a href=\"#Jan08\">Googleg&auml;nger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the first time &#8216;google&#8217; has been recorded in the OED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}