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

A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its latest update.

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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 ...

But there are words you almost certainly won’t have heard of. These are the words in what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls ‘Band 1’, and they are so rare they are unlikely to ever ...

So, for example, while 'chav' is part of the Oxford English Dictionary website, at the time of writing 'climate emergency' isn’t - not yet, at least. The deviously difficult dead word quiz Do ...

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 ...

In addition to street corn (noun, grilled corn on the cob that is coated with a creamy spread), additional nouns include ...

In the mid-19th century, Professor James Murray begins to compile words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and receives help from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

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“Because it’s a set phrase for telling time, it’s not surprising that it got shortened over time because we’re saying it fast,” says Anne Curzan, PhD, a professor of English, linguistics ...

The recent additions come after the dictionary included cheffy, chef’s kiss, jollof rice, smashburger and stagiaire ...