OED silliness.

Ammon Shea, in the Oxford University Press blog, writes about some of the weird stuff he found while reading the Oxford English Dictionary:

I’ll confess that on several occasions I thought that the editors of the OED were having a joke at the reader’s expense. The entry for unpoetic gives no definition, but there is a note that tells the reader to ‘cf. next.’ The reader dutifully looks ahead to the next entry which is unpoetical, the definition of which reads ‘cf. prev.’