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“OED & Research”
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The OED, the HT, and the HTOED – Part I: The Origin Story
The Historical Thesaurus is the product of over fifty years of sorting and categorising; based primarily on data from the OED, it was originally produced through extensive work at the…
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Case Study: Text Annotation Made Easy
The OED Labs initiative is helping to shape the future of the Oxford English Dictionary in its evolution as a vital tool in the digital humanities. Our aim is to…
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Women of Words: a journey through the archives of the OED
The OED often appears in popular culture and in the media – its ambition, span, and attention to detail has captured many imaginations over the last 150 years. The latest…
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The Long Tale of a Shirttail
For such an unassuming word—it’s not even a garment, just a part of one, and the bottom bit, at that—shirttail has undergone a surprising amount of semantic development. This fact…
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Early Women of the OED: 690-1100CE
I recently became interested in researching some of the earliest women cited or mentioned in the OED. Only a few individuals, such as members of royal families or famous scholars…
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Webinar: The Oxford English Dictionary for Korean users
The Oxford English Dictionary for Korean users: resources to support teaching and academic research Korean universities, schools, and other education institutions can now access the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) through…
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The Oxford English Dictionary: focus areas and goals for 2021
In the runup to the 2028 centenary of the completion of OED’s First Edition, the OED team is undertaking a series of projects to update the content more dynamically than…
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Roger Kreuz on irony and the OED
What do the words perpetrate, picnic, and precious have in common? How about the phrases clutch one’s pearls, fun and games, and little ray of sunshine? It turns out that…
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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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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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