SOED

SOED which is, I allow, wrong often enough has it as an adjective with its own headword entry, though its status is a little compromised:

languagehat.com: CLUNKY COMPOUNDS. 2005

I get the impression that people on this list are not aware that there are two styles of SOED pronunciation.

languagehat.com: TRAI(T). 2005

The SOED gives a somewhat more anglicised pronunciation equivalent to the only one in Everyman's Pronouncing Dictionary, and I find that its rendering of the "foreign" Italian pronunciation closely resembles mine.

languagehat.com: TRAI(T). 2005

I get the impression that people on this list are not aware that there are two styles of SOED pronunciation.

languagehat.com: TRAI(T). 2005

But all of that is a separate matter from how the SOED gives its foreign pronunciations.

languagehat.com: TRAI(T). 2005

SOED on the other hand, links ope to the noun open, meaning open space, which is apparently ME in origin, from the verb open, sense 2, meaning “not shut up” among other meanings listed.

languagehat.com: (H)OPE. 2005

Limbo is the fringe of hell; it and limb(n2) (SOED) are derived from Latin limbus, which also gives us English limbus:

languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY. 2005

Well Chris, SOED gives both "radicule" and "radicle" as equivalent terms corresponding to French "radicule", so we await your purple pen's outpourings.

languagehat.com: PLUMULE. 2005

Four questions: 1. How do Americans express the SOED sense given in 1 or 4, above: with alternate, or how?

languagehat.com: ALTERNATE NOBELS. 2005

Perhaps Albion deserves mention supposedly from a Celtic origin cognate with Latin alb-, probably with reference to the White Cliffs of Dover, says SOED.

languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM. 2005