The Oxford English Dictionary has announced the new slang terms that have been added to their ranks - from 'beery' to 'boozeroo'. The OED - which dates back to 1884 and is one of the famous ...

I used to work upstairs as an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and I was filling in time ... title (short). Give an exact reference, such as seems to you to be the best to enable anyone ...

Baker, William 2023. XVIIIBibliography, Textual Criticism, and Reference Works. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 101, Issue. 1, p. 1339. Kostadinova ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its latest update. Editors say the 10 Welsh words and phrases have been included as they have been ...

The Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University ... quotation marks), or whether to use a serial comma—also known as an “Oxford” comma (Chicago style: yes; ...

This hallowed city is synonymous with its venerable university — but there’s much to see beyond the sandstone halls of its ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has included popular ... literally means "something small," and it is often used in reference to bribes or small favours. Many Kenyans are familiar with this ...

The term “waka jumper” has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The colloquial phrase, which is used almost exclusively in New Zealand politics, is among several new words the ...

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.