The content of the OED2 is mostly just a reorganization of the earlier corpus, but the retypesetting provided an opportunity for two long-needed format changes. The headword of each entry was no longer capitalized, allowing the user to readily see those words that actually require a capital letter. Murray had devised his own notation for pronunciation, there being no standard available at the time, whereas the OED2 adopted the modern International Phonetic Alphabet. Unlike the earlier edition, all foreign alphabets except Greek were transliterated.
the content of the oed2 is mostly just a reorganization of the earlier corpus but the retypesetting provided an opportunity for two long-needed format changes the headword of each entry was no longer capitalized allowing the user to readily see those words that actually require a capital letter murray had devised his own notation for pronunciation there being no standard available at the time whereas the oed2 adopted the modern international phonetic alphabet unlike the earlier edition all foreign alphabets except greek were transliterated