However, several of those, including one originally scheduled for this coming weekend at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, had been canceled with the expectation that the budget cuts would force the Navy's hand.
The fifth Shorter Oxford was the first edition compiled entirely from a computerised corpus of English citations, a rapidly growing monster with 100m entries (including 300, mainly economic, from this newspaper).
To minimise the risk of including random concatenations of words, rare spellings or mistakes, any word or expression had to appear in the corpus at least 40 times to merit inclusion in the final, chronologically ordered set.