Pynchon in the OED

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:

A cross-post from the Gaddis list, where a list member with access to a
searchable OED has run the numbers. I guess this taps in to the "big words"
thread unspooling elsewhere 'round these parts.

I've snipped the Gaddis word lists to save space. If you want them I can
forward offlist, just ask. (Or join the Gaddis list @ yahoogroups!)

etb

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"Dear God!  there are, it looks like, 135 references to Gaddis in the
second edition of the OED, entirely to The Recognitions.  Here's a
quick list, apologies for the formatting:

[snip word list]

and that's not all! 28 so far in the New Edition of the OED,
including a couple of cites to Frolic:

[snip another word list]

For comparison: Pynchon turns up about 230 in total (he's also
M-heavy in the new edition results), DeLillo gets 9, and "Infinite
Jest" gets 5 citations (all starting with M) in the new edition."