Release notes: the changes in empathy, employ, and empire
This release contains two quite large runs of entries starting with EMP- and ETH-. Although there are no very long entries here, there are a number of shorter or medium-sized…
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Release notes: how the French ‘toile’ cloth came to be toilet
It’s a fascinating fact of linguistic history that some words hardly change their main meaning or develop new meanings, while other words swing Tarzan-like from one semantic treetop to another…
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New words notes
Over 900 new words, phrases, and senses enter the Oxford English Dictionary in this update. Many appear in entries fully updated for the first time since the OED’s original edition….
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