Archive for October, 2019

When regional Englishes got their words

David-Antoine Williams takes a bird’s-eye-view of Caribbean English, as documented in the OED, as a way of highlighting some of the lexicological and lexicographical issues at stake.

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These ARE the words you are looking for: the OED October 2019 update

From ‘fake news’ to ‘Jedi mind trick’, let us ‘loop you in’ with the latest OED update:

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Archive for October, 2019

When regional Englishes got their words

These ARE the words you are looking for: the OED October 2019 update

It’s time to kvell about some awesomesauce new words: the OED January 2020 update

Release notes: Nigerian English

Release notes: West African English pronunciations

Renewing Our Commitment to the OED

Making use of new resources in LGBT history

These ARE the words you are looking for: the OED October 2019 update

Cha before tea: finding earlier mentions in a corpus of early English letters (part 2)

Cha before tea: finding earlier mentions in a corpus of early English letters (part 1)

Gym bunnies and junkyard dogs: new words in the June 2019 update