#OTD in 1928.
Publication of the Oxford English Dictionary is completed.
The 125th & last fascicle covered words from Wise to the end of W & was published in 1928, and the full dictionary in bound volumes followed immediately.β William Shakespeare is the most-quoted writer in the completed dictionary, with Hamlet his most-quoted work. George Eliot is the most-quoted female writer. Collectively, the Bible is the most-quoted work; the most-quoted single work is Cursor Mundi.