Example sentences for: odnw
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I have not taken the trouble to research the accuracy of the information given in these books, but I did note that grody (to the max) , which is not in Neologisms , is described in the ODNW as “US teenagers' slang”; while that might be technically correct, I have evidence that leads me to believe that it originated in the slang of Hawaiian teenagers, and while no American would dispute the nationality of Hawaiians, responsibility should be laid at the door of the real culprits.
One question is raised by the statement in the ODNW: Why should contemporary users need or want information expressly prepared for readers fifty or a hundred years hence?
Thus, Green cannot be faulted for offering more succinct entries, especially when the further comment in ODNW indicates a difference in purpose:
Both list Filofax ( Neologisms holding that the trade mark was registered in 1941, the ODNW says the early thirties), and, as expected, the latter includes several subentries (e.g.
The stated purpose of the ODNW , as set forth in the Preface, is “to provide an informative and readable guide to about two thousand high-profile words and phrases which have been in the news during the past decade.”