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I used to do research for the OED and generally if there's evidence that a verb is common in the field (used in magazines, books, etc. by multiple authors and n
by ig1 16y ago
I used to do research for the OED and generally if there's evidence that a verb is common in the field (used in magazines, books, etc. by multiple authors and not just in reference to it's original usage) then the OED is willing to include it.
If there's a term that you think matches that criteria but isn't included you can gather up some relevent citations and send them in and they'll consider it for addition.
To get a transparent look at how they do this kind of thing have a look at:
http://www.jessesword.com/sf/ http://www.jessesword.com/sf/
The OED ran an open research project to gather evidence of science fiction terms as they figured the online SF community would be much better at finding this evidence than their own researchers.