arvo, n. bowyang, n. brush, n.5 Buckley’s, n. bung, adj.2 bushy, n chook, n. chook, int. chookie, n. cobber, n.2 cobber, v. compo, n.2 derry, n.2 dill, n.6 dinky-di, adj….
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In its latest update, the OED is putting the spotlight on the country that its first inhabitants, the Māori people, originally called Aotearoa—the land of the long white cloud—as the…
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In the late 19th century, James Murray’s inclusion of transcriptions in A New English Dictionary embedded the descriptivist stance that OED’s pronunciations editors emulate and hold dear today. Pronunciations were…
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In her memoir Single Journey Only, Ursula Owen, one of the founding directors of Virago Press, describes the feelings evoked by the name of the new feminist publishing venture: It’s…
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The distinction between noun and verb is one of the most fundamental features of human language, and this is reflected in the OED’s organizational principles. The process whereby one part…
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ae, adv. (and n.) after-ball, adj., and n. bitzer, n. chur, int. droppie, n. e hoa, n. e hoa ma, n. enrol | enroll, v. flat stick, adv., and adj….
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Readers may be pleased to hear that an entry for antigram is being published in the OED for the first time. For those not familiar, an antigram is an anagram…
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Ever wondered what it’s like to work for the world’s leading dictionary publisher? Every year Oxford Languages runs a summer placement to give two people a taste of the work…
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The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a joint project of Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press) and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, is now well underway, and the…
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What is Indian English, and who speaks it? English is an official language in India, and 2011 census data suggests that there are around 130 million speakers. There is no…
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