Ar 06:56 -0800 2000-03-13, scr�obh Alain:
>Webster systematically follows the reverse practice. The full OED has
>"august" before "August" (like Webster), for example, and there are a lot
>of other examples...
Do you READ my posts, Alain? The full OED does NOT take case ordering into
account. It takes the age of the word by its introduction into the language
as criteria for ordering homographs. You cannot say anything about case
ordering in English by looking at the full OED, because the full OED does
not DO case ordering.
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