As we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary’s first completed edition, writer and editor Stan Carey has honoured the occasion with a spine poem, titled ‘Walking Word…
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Among the people who started work on the OED in the 1920s were two who went on to have careers of some significance for Oxford lexicography in very different ways:…
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Meet Katherine Connor Martin, former Head of US Dictionaries (now Head of Product for Oxford Languages), and part of the team tasked with ensuring that the Oxford English Dictionary keeps up…
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When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary were putting the finishing touches on the first edition ninety years ago, they knew their work was in no way ‘complete’. The…
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One of the most distinctive modern uses of partner is to denote the ‘significant other’ in one’s life. OED3 defines this sense (5a) as: A person who is linked by…
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