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“People & the OED”
Oxford Languages Summer Placement
Each year Oxford Languages offers summer placement positions, for two candidates to work on various lexical projects within the department. Our interns from 2021 reflect on their experiences: What made…
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Hidden Sci-Fi Women of the OED
As a science fiction reader and space fan myself since the mid-80s, this is a topic of great interest to me. Whilst searching for quotations to add to OED entries,…
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Meet the Editors: New Words
My name is Fiona and I am responsible for putting amazeballs in the OED. When you tell people you are a lexicographer and are responsible for putting new words into…
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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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Renewing Our Commitment to the OED
Over the last year, the Oxford Languages group, which is made up of the OED team alongside our other dictionary projects and teams, has been reviewing its organizational structure and…
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The OED: supporting research through innovation
How could you use the OED dataset in your research? Take part in the next phase of the OED’s evolution as we reimagine how we can share our data to better support academic research.
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A look back on our 90th anniversary celebrations
With the ink freshly dried on the final pages of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, an extraordinary mission begun over 60 years prior to compile a comprehensive…
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In conversation with Desmond Morris – part one
The Oxford English Dictionary is not the only one with a 90th birthday to celebrate this past year – Desmond Morris, the renowned zoologist and author of The Naked Ape,…
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