OED editors are continually monitoring linguistic developments, and one way of doing this is through analysis of language corpora. Here, we summarize some recent trends, using data from our monitor corpus of English.
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Dr Seth Mehl, Digital Humanities Fellow at the University of Sheffield, on how exploring a very specific kind of lexical co-occurrence delivers fascinating new insights into large text collections.
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It is a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to…
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In the March 2020 update to the OED, our entry for bear, n.1 found itself in the paws of our revision editors. The process of taking the ‘bear’ that appeared…
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