I'm not out-and-out saying "you're wrong" (because I know it's ... correct) but it highlights the problem I have with books and "edition number" type publications. First edition OED existed nearly a decade before Tolkien was born and lasted until 15 years after his death. Second edition is to be superseded in ~2037.
Blackbirds_Garden t1_ja2obpc wrote
Reply to TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
I'm not out-and-out saying "you're wrong" (because I know it's ... correct) but it highlights the problem I have with books and "edition number" type publications. First edition OED existed nearly a decade before Tolkien was born and lasted until 15 years after his death. Second edition is to be superseded in ~2037.