Series One acknowledgments

The OED would like to thank everyone who joined the Wordhunt. Thanks to your efforts we have now updated 34 OED entries! Of the thousands of you who contacted us, we would particularly like to thank and congratulate the following people who managed to track down that all-important datable evidence:

Wordhunt Wall of Fame

back to square one

• Darren Hick, USA
• William C. Waterhouse, USA

balti

• Staff of Birmingham Central Library Local Studies library
• Harry Bell, Gateshead
• Kevin Williams, Woking

Beeb

• Jeff Walden, Caversham
• David Johnson, Wembley

bog standard

• Mark Edwards, Coventry
• Gerald Dawson, Bristol
• Tarik Sadat, Hove
• Iain McConnachie, London

bomber jacket

• Bill Mullins, USA

bonk (on the head)

• Gerald Donovan, Bristol

chattering classes

• Frank Johnson

codswallop

• Joe Cunningham, Canada

cool

• Robin Heath, Cardigan
• Alan Dobson, Sheffield

cocktail

• David Barnhart, USA

Mackem

• Silvana Robinson, Sunderland Local Studies Centre
• Martyn Macfadden, A Love Supreme, Sunderland
• Jerome Borkwood, London

made-up

• Ingrid Spiegl, Liverpool
• Richard Porter
• Pete Nash
• Stephen Fletcher, Loughborough
• British Beatles Fanclub

mark (and gas mark)

• Tessa Hatts, London
• Anne Sweeney, University of Stratchclyde
• Jim Baker, Crawley
• Patricia George

minger

• Clare Washbrook, Derbyshire

full monty

• Janet Cooke, Leeds
• Peter Wood, Lytham St Annes

moony

• Will Weaver, Eastbourne
• The Ripple, University of Leicester

muller

• Paul Davis, London

mushy peas

• Morgan Dylan Macleod

ninety-nine

• Sarah Foden, Cadbury's Archivist
• Robin Weir, London

nip and tuck

• Katherine Flynn, USA

nit comb

• Fiona Bourne, Royal College of Nursing, Edinburgh

nit nurse

• Anton Dil, Milton Keynes

nutmeg

• Delroy Gayle, London

on the pull

• David Parkins
• Geoffrey Cunnington

pass the parcel

• Fred Shapiro, USA
• Vivien Clear, Darlington

phwoar

• Michele Grange, Hitchin
• Graeme Johnston, Cambridge

ploughman's lunch

• Nigel White, British Cheese Board
• Guy Trehane, Dorset

pop one's clogs

• David Johnson, Wembley

ska

• Fred Shapiro, USA
• Dave Edwards, London

smart casual

• Fred Shapiro, USA
• David Hrivnak, Toronto, Canada

snazzy

• Bill Mullins, USA

something for the weekend

• Michael Glass
• Timothy Freeman
• James Barrett
• Mrs E. Blatherwick