Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...
When the complete edition of what would become the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1928, it was lauded as a comprehensive collection of the English language, a glossary so vast—and so ...
Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...
Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we’re all just puppets bending to its many whims. Dictionaries aren’t safe from the power of a linguistic whim either, and so maybe that’s why ...
A word doesn’t need a centuries-old history or some lofty Latin pedigree to end up in the Oxford English Dictionary. It just needs to have been around long enough and used frequently enough for ...
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From 'alamak' to 'nasi lemak': Oxford English Dictionary welcomes Malaysian and Singaporean words
PETALING JAYA: Oxford Languages, a part of Oxford University Press, announces its latest Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update, consisting of “untranslatable words” from Malaysia and Singapore. It ...
Last year it was vape. The year before that, it was selfie. Every year since 2004, Oxford Dictionaries has selected an official word of the year which, according to its Monday press release is "a word ...
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