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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce ...