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It’s one of the ultimate accolades for a writer with a genuine interest in words: being cited in a dictionary - especially one published by the Oxford University Press - as an example of first use of a particular term in a dictionary entry. This summer I found myself cited not once but seven times. The glory!
Except that my citations aren’t in the Oxford English Dictionary or any of its authoritative spin-offs, but in a tome entitled Slayer Slang: a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (OUP, (...)