The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form

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The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (The OEDILF) is an open collaborative project to compile an English dictionary whose entries all take the form of limericks. The project was originally called the "Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form", until the OED's legal department advised against it. The site, launched in August 2004, has attracted several hundred writers from around the world, many of whom are active at any one particular time. Together these writers have submitted more than 50,000 limericks on over 37,000 different words, phrases, and people (as of March 2008) — almost certainly the largest corpus of original limericks ever produced. At this time the project is working on only those words beginning with the letters A through Co. The entire project is expected to take decades to be considered nearly complete.

The OEDILF has been featured on National Public Radio in the U.S. and on BBC Radio 4, and in the pages of the Washington Post, the Glasgow Herald, and various other newspapers. It was also named one of PC Magazine's Top 99 Undiscovered Websites of 2006.

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• The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
• PC Magazine's Top 99 Undiscovered Websites of 2006
• The Herald, Glasgow, 20 January 2007
• Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4, 9 May 2006
• Weekend Edition, NPR, 25 December 2004
• Washington Post Style Invitational contests in August 2004, August 2005, August 2006, August 2007