Help the OED Find a Lost Book 91
New submitter imlepid writes "The Oxford English Dictionary is currently undergoing a complete overhaul which includes a reexamination of the 300,000+ entries and citations for those entries. Understandably for a work which is over 150 years old, some of the sources have become hard to find. One such example is a book titled 'Meanderings of Memory' by Nightlark, which is cited 49 times in the OED, including for some rare words. The OED's editorial team has appealed to the public, 'Have you seen a copy of this book?'"
Re:Does it even really exist? (Score:5, Informative)
check the comments under the OED blog - there's a link to a catalog on google books which lists it
Re:No help for the OED until they change pricing (Score:4, Informative)
A word being used once or twice in a body of literature might indicate that the word was in use around the area where the author worked and may have even been a common term at that time and place. The word may no longer be useful to us in everyday speech, but it may be useful if someone were to read the works of others from around that time and place who happened to use the word in personal journals or the like that historians are later trying to make sense of.
Re:Does it even really exist? (Score:5, Informative)
check the comments under the OED blog - there's a link to a catalog on google books which lists it
Would that I could mod you up. Here's the catalog [google.co.uk]. It's entirely possible that it's also made up, but seems less likely.