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First World War Centenary

2014 marks the start of the first centenary of World War One and the Oxford English Dictionary will be exploring the language of the First World War throughout the centenary…

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    OED Update

    New words notes

    Release notes: how the French ‘toile’ cloth came to be toilet

    Release notes: the changes in empathy, employ, and empire

    Chief Editor’s notes June 2014

    Release notes: The language of World War I

    First World War Centenary

    OED Update

    New word notes: December 2013

    Release notes: twists in the tale of fairy and the history of beauty

    A coalition of all the talents: the OED in the future

    A heads up for the June 2013 OED release