Theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili is known worldwide for his work on nuclear reaction theory as well as his broadcasting and publication credits, which include the BBC Radio Four programme…
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The history of cool as a general term of approval is a patchy affair. It emerged in African American English by the early 1930s, perhaps as a development of an…
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A few weeks ago a photograph came to light showing an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer on active service during the First World War: the only such photo known to us….
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Discover the ways in which the events of the First World War left their mark on the English language with our interactive timeline.
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Tony Harrison begins his major poem ‘V’ with a quote from the 1980s leader of the Miners’ Union, Arthur Scargill. Scargill says that his father “still reads the dictionary every…
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