The general public can submit words and debate their validity with other users.
Readers are invited to visit Schott's Vocab and submit words of note.
It also lets you submit words of your own, and gives you the option of British or American English.
Indeed, the OED invited the public to submit words several years ago, though the website is not quite so welcoming of readers' help as Collins's is.
By getting people to submit words, pictures, sounds and movies about something or someone lost or left behind, I'm hoping to build up an online archive/blog I can analyse and reshape (with permission) to create a map of the imaginary town I lost and revive some kind of relationship with my dead father".
Users submit words or phrases associated with each word, with the most popular results displayed in a large font.
"I think the opportunity offered by Collins to submit words is really good as it means people have the chance to give their views on things that people are actually saying and the terms they are using.
The entries will now be considered for the dictionary's print edition, but people can continue to submit words to Collins' online resource, which the publisher said allows it to keep up-to-date in real-time.
So they created an Internet site (http://www.oed.com/readers/research.htm) where people can submit words.
Though the Oxford Dictionaries editors can submit words for consideration and the final choice is made by editors, lexicographers and other staffers, the process is bolstered by the use of software that scans the web for emerging words, changes in word usage, and shifts in frequency.
More than 8,000 people have already submitted words to the poll, with differences beginning to emerge between countries.
