Release notes: Indian English
In the four centuries that English has been present in India, the language has played a number of important roles in Indian society—first arriving as a foreign tongue used by…
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Release notes: Beltway
The lexicographical byways of the political highway If you are British then you quite possibly have not heard of a beltway before; if you are American you might read or hear the…
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Release notes: a big antedating for white lie – and introducing Shakespeare’s world
A new antedating of the expression white lie by almost two centuries, from 1741 to 1567, shows one of the first fruits of Shakespeare’s World, a collaboration between the OED,…
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New words notes September 2017
The September 2017 quarterly update of the OED includes more than 1000 new headwords, senses, and subentries. The full list of new entries can be found here. Not all words…
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