Archive for July, 2020

July 2020 update: scientific terminology of Covid-19

As we increase our understanding of the virus and its effects and potential treatments, specialist scientific and medical language is increasingly prominent in everyday discourse. The OED decided to publish another update to cover these developments.

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

In the July 2020 OED update, we take a look at linguistic changes to Covid-19-related vocabulary, and describe the ways that OED lexicographers use corpora to track such changes.

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Archive for July, 2020

July 2020 update: scientific terminology of Covid-19

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

A load of old codswallop? Revising codswallop, n.

The Ontario Dialects Project and Canadian English in the OED

Code red! It’s the OED September 2020 update

Switching gears: revising code-switching, n.

Trick or treat? Some Halloween revisions to OED

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

The OED’s latest exercise in crowdsourcing

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

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

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