Archive for April, 2018

Celebrate the OED’s 90th birthday

Celebrate the OED’s 90th birthday with us here!

1928: the Year of the Dictionary

‘This year, whatever else it may be, is the Year of the Dictionary.’ So wrote Charles Onions in the Times of 19 April 1928, in an article celebrating the completion…

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Words as old as the OED

When the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was finally completed in 1928, the world of 1857, when work on the dictionary began, must have seemed impossibly distant. Radio,…

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Archive for April, 2018

Celebrate the OED’s 90th birthday

1928: the Year of the Dictionary

Words as old as the OED

Another find from Shakespeare’s World – a startling antedating for partner meaning ‘spouse’

Americanisms (and ‘America Firsters’) in the OED

Meet the Editors: Katherine Connor Martin

OED editors of the 1920s: Jessie Coulson and James Wyllie

Walking Word by Word: a poem for the OED’s 90th birthday

1928: the Year of the Dictionary

Words as old as the OED

New words notes March 2018

Release notes: the formal language of sexuality and gender identity

A note on Welsh English pronunciations