Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary print to get digital makeover

Oxford English Dictionary print to get digital makeover

The 126-year-old dictionary could be the latest victim of our digital revolution. ...
10:50 AM, Sep 09, 2010

Vuvuzela makes it into the Oxford Dictionary

Vuvuzela makes it into the Oxford Dictionary London: The ever-present hum of the vuvuzela during this year's soccer World Cup catapulted the plastic trumpet to instant fame and now it has earned itself a place in the revered Oxford Dictionary of English. Vuvuzela is among 2,000 new words and phrases added to the third edition of the dictionary, published on Thursday, which is compiled from analysis of two billion words used in everything from novels to Internet...
08:55 PM, Aug 19, 2010

Oxford English says goodbye to 16,000 hyphens

Oxford English says goodbye to 16,000 hyphens Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. ...
10:15 AM, Sep 22, 2007

Did you go 'bonkers' before 1957?

Did you go 'bonkers' before 1957? Oxford English Dictionary have sought the public's help to find the roots of well-known words like ‘bonkers’ and ‘loo’. ...
09:10 PM, Jan 03, 2007
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