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OED1 has the word, but the first fascicle of the OED was published in 1884, probably three years after this little book.
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I can remember looking up “trajectory” in my OED1 and being surprised that Murray — coming to the word in 1914 the year before he died with the OED still not completed after his thirty years work on it with three co-editors — recorded only /trə`ʤektəri/ for its spoken form.
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After giving the various spellings over the centuries, OED1 says The latter form which one does it mean?
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CAESURA is pronounced sez’-ū-rǎ not even OED1 allows /e/ in the first syllable, nor stress on that syllable
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DECADE is pronounced dĕk’-āde, not dēk’-ade OED1 gives only /ˈdekəd/ – as the BBC Advisory Committee was also recommending nearly 50 years later
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When Craigie in OED1 in 1905 had come to deal with “refectory” he’d added the note: “The stressing ˈrefectory was at one time somewhat prevalent … and is still used by some Roman Catholics”.
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