Today is the 124th anniversary of the publication of the first fascicle of the OED (actually and pedantically the NED, i.e., A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles), A–Ant, by the Oxford University Press.

If you have the bandwidth, you can download the first volume, which includes the first fascicle, at the Internet Archive site.

Happy anniversary to the OED! Google should have had one of their special logos for their anniversary. I wonder if the OED will do anything special for their 125th anniversary.