The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a ...
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Ohio's fall redistricting issue sparked a fight over one word. So what is 'gerrymandering,' anyway?
How the Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board turned the tables on Citizens Not Politicians, a bipartisan and well-funded ...
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The Ambidextrous Entrepreneur - Ambitious and Amphibious
A truly ambidextrous person is facile with both hands or, as defined by the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, is “able to use both hands alike”. Such individuals do exist, but they are quite ...
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Vax declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year
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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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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 ...
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Ohio's fall redistricting issue sparked a fight over one word. So what is 'gerrymandering,' anyway?
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 ...