The new Oxford English Dictionary

�hellsapoppin,� which the OED writers have traced back to 1875 and means something like all hell is breaking loose. (What is a necessity for considering adding an alternative spelling for a word, like a teenage slang or something, like calling something �cool� as �sick.�) All words used by all segments of the population should be used and particularly teenage slang is often used by novelists or in film scripts and in 50 years time people will come across these words and look to an authority to see what they meant, and that’s the OED’s goal. (How far do you extend the frame of what do include?) That’s an enormously difficult line for any dictionary to draw, because the OED does set out to be comprehensive. (When are the publishers planning to release the newest edition?) I think the estimate is the current revision would take up at least 14 volumes and the question is, how many people would buy that and how would you store it? so I think they’re waiting to see how it turns out.