ah...but I'm not sure digitization makes the tough work of making a dictionary any easier. 8 months actually may be pretty quick.
Rourke or anyone else interested in words should check out Simon Winchester's
The Professor and the Madman. It's about the original writing of the OED, the single greatest dictionary in the history of man.
It turns out, for example, that the largest contributor to said dictionary was, for most of his adult life, institutionalized in an asylum.
And just to be pedantic, the OED was published in "fascicles." Huzzahs to the first person who can define that term without looking it up.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)