Modern editors scour the internet searching for possible new entries and regular calls are made for public submissions and suggestions.
Oxford Dictionaries says their latest standard print version has about 220,000 thousand words. However, the major international dictionaries are no longer bound by bookbinding. Their online editions are much larger and constantly evolving, documenting new words that appear online with impressive speed. Modern editors scour the internet searching for possible new entries and regular calls are made for public submissions and suggestions.