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Well, at the bottom of the Main Menu there is a Login, and I just thought there might be even more available if one were to log in to the site. However, when you click it, it just asks for your username and password. So one must have to be "special" in some way in order to join. That "special" may mean as little as paying somebody.

Regardless, it's an interesting site and thanks for posting it, Tinman.

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Yes, I see the log in, now that you've pointed it out. Clicking it reveals that you must log in to access the "private areas" of the site. I have no idea what they are or how you join, if you should wish to. But you can access all the links in the menu. And, of course, each link contains more links.

Here is their contact information. They can tell you how and if you can join.

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Well, for what it's worth, I did contact them to find out how one can participate in their project. I'll let you know.

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I got a message back from the project. Here is what they said:

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Thank you very much for your message and for your offer. Examining the OED is an academic research project which I set up in 2005 and work on in the spaces between the teaching and lecturing parts of my job (as a university teacher), sometimes with the help of research assistants, all university postgraduates – see About the project at http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/category/11/41/152/and About us at http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/16/157/.

At the moment I am writing some pages on OED's treatment of Auden , to follow on from http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/369/215/, while one of my team is getting up some new photos which we scanned recently in the Oxford University Press archives. So the help that I need on the project is fairly specialised. However, I have had some really useful information sent me by someone who posted a review on Amazon.com of a book I've just published, and who e-mailed me with some early quotations for the use of the term 'OED'.

So I am delighted when non-academics look at the webpages and find them interesting, and I welcome new information, corrections, and any other responses
- though generally the website is aimed at and used by other academics and by students.

The log-in bit of the site accesses parts of the project that are still under construction – drafts of my in-progress Auden pages etc, or some stuff on OED's use of newspapers, which have yet to be proof-read and corrected. I've just had a look at your Wordchat site - very interesting.

Too bad she called it our "Wordchat" site. I suppose we do get a little chatty at times.

Anyway, apparently it's just beginning and is targeted for students and academics.

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Good for you, Kalleh. You've recruited another potential Wordcrafter (or Wordchatter). Her response didn't explicitly answer the question of if and how you can join. But my sense is that only academics in her field can join. If that's so I wonder why the log in is on the main menu. It seems some kind of explanation on the site would be helpful.

I still find the site interesting.

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I agree that she didn't specifically answer my question about logging in. Since Wordcrafter helps out John Simpson at the OED every so often by finding earlier quotes, I suggested that he might be interested in that site. We'll see if anything comes of that.

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