Archive for November, 2021
The Oxford English Dictionary has always included words from across the English-speaking world, and in the past few years we have been undertaking a series of projects to improve our…
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The OED offers a record of English as it has been used for more than 1,000 years and each entry tells the story of a word’s place in the English…
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Lauren Simon holds an MSt in Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics from University of Oxford. She is currently a venture capital investor, funding purpose-driven startups, but continues to pursue linguistic research…
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In the first of this series of blog posts, I described the process by which the Historical Thesaurus of English was created from dictionary data, especially the Oxford English Dictionary….
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In this case study, Exploring word meaning in historical texts with computational methods: when time makes a difference, Dr Barbara McGillivray details her experience using the OED API to aid…
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