Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...
See C for Crazy, F for Friendship and I for Insane. The incredible story of a professor who collaborated with an incarcerated murderer to create the first edition of the OED, has now been made into a ...
The OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago. By Pippa Bailey The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition ...
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From 'bobolee' to 'pholourie,' the Oxford English Dictionary adds 12 new Caribbean words
There are some 500,000 words and phrases in the Oxford English Dictionary, which details the history of words, some of which go back to the 11th century. From news to politics, travel to sport, ...
An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online ...
Slang is almost always older than you think. English speakers have been calling stylish people “fly” since at least 1953. Though it’s everywhere now, the first known use of OMG goes back to 1917. And ...
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