Archive for May, 2020

Circuit breakers, PPEs, and Veronica buckets: World Englishes and Covid-19

By analyzing our multibillion-word monitor corpus of English, OED editors can observe how English speakers across the globe are changing the lexicon as a response to the same social pressures resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Archive for May, 2020

Circuit breakers, PPEs, and Veronica buckets: World Englishes and Covid-19

That’s the spirit: revising ‘spirit’, n. for OED3

From pirates to plant-based: the OED June 2020 update

The OED’s latest exercise in crowdsourcing

Using corpora to track the language of Covid-19: update 2

July 2020 update: scientific terminology of Covid-19

Corpus analysis of the language of Covid-19

Investigating the Linguistic DNA of life, body, and soul

Social change and linguistic change: the language of Covid-19

A bear of many brains: the revision of bear, n.1

Have yourself a merry little update: the March 2020 OED release notes