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Use our birthday word generator and find out which word shares your birthday: The OED is continually undergoing a revision process, and as such entries may be antedated. In the 20 years since the full-scale revision of the OED started, the range of online resources available to the Dictionary’s editors has increased almost exponentially. This means that for the entries we worked on in the early years of the project, there’s a good chance of being able to improve upon the dates of our earliest quotations.