How the Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board turned the tables on Citizens Not Politicians, a bipartisan and well-funded ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo ...

It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

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To gasps from the audience, the amendment passed. LaRose read the Compact Oxford English Dictionary definition of “gerrymander” that he said inspired his office's original phrasing — “to ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions arranged in alphabetical order. In an English dictionary you'll find words beginning with ‘a’ at the front and ‘z’ at the back.

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

There are several theories regarding the origin of the word “hooligan”. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary writes that the word comes from the surname of a rowdy Irish family in a music ...

A legendary college town. Recently cited by Yahoo as the #3 College Town in the United States. Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami's main campus, is a picturesque town brimming with ideas and opportunities.