Release notes: The many faces of energy
Energy is everywhere. It powers our homes and businesses, our trains and automobiles; a whole industry has built up around it. We count it in calories, yet we often wish…
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Spoiler alert! New words notes for June 2018
The June 2018 update of the OED adds more than 900 new words and senses, including the selection of items described in greater detail below. The full list of entries can be…
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Release notes: Manx English pronunciation
Two years ago, OED began to expand coverage of pronunciations to include more varieties of English used around the world. Entries labelled as Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Irish, New…
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Release notes: Regional English words new to the OED
Last year the OED collaborated with the BBC and the Forward Arts Foundation on a project for National Poetry Day. Twelve poets from different English regions were commissioned to each…
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Release notes: Come an’ hev a skeet at the Manx Dialect, Yessir!
Set almost half way between Ireland and England in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is perhaps more widely known for the TT, its annual festival of motorbike racing,…
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Our present to you: purchase the OED for £90
To celebrate the OED’s 90th birthday, we are pleased to offer annual OED subscriptions at a reduced rate of £90 for the duration of the birthday year.
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Winnie-the-Pooh in the Oxford English Dictionary
The publication of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928 coincided with that of The House at Pooh Corner, the sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh which had appeared two…
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The gift of words: an interview with Geraldine McCaughrean
With a mother who ‘wore out dictionaries as other people wear out shoes’, Geraldine McCaughrean was always destined for a life as a wordsmith. Now one of Britain’s best loved…
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When lexicography meets poetry: Jane Griffiths and ‘nature, n.¹’
As we celebrate all things OED for the first edition’s 90th anniversary, Jane Griffiths, University of Oxford academic, poet, and former lexicographer, has joined our celebrations to offer an insight…
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Walking Word by Word: a poem for the OED’s 90th birthday
As we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary’s first completed edition, writer and editor Stan Carey has honoured the occasion with a spine poem, titled ‘Walking Word…
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