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“People and the OED”
An interview with Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
Author and OED ambassador Daisy Johnson recently visited our Oxford HQ to talk to us about her debut novel Everything Under, an eerie retelling of the Oedipus myth set on…
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Talking and listening on a quiet street in Barnsley
Poet, playwright, author, and broadcaster Ian McMillan muses on the localisms of his South Yorkshire hometown Barnsley in this blog post for our Words Where You Are public appeal for regionalisms,…
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s five favourite words
Theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili is known worldwide for his work on nuclear reaction theory as well as his broadcasting and publication credits, which include the BBC Radio Four programme…
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Lexicographers at war
A few weeks ago a photograph came to light showing an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer on active service during the First World War: the only such photo known to us….
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Building dictionaries with crowdsourcing: sign up for live webinar
Join us on Thursday 29 November to find out how a dictionary is created: now and in the past, without the help of technology.
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‘There remains something extraordinary’: David Whitley on the OED
Tony Harrison begins his major poem ‘V’ with a quote from the 1980s leader of the Miners’ Union, Arthur Scargill. Scargill says that his father “still reads the dictionary every…
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Baking the OED: Kate Young’s ‘formerly’ and ‘subsequently’ cheesecakes
Cheesecake, n. 1.Formerly: †a tart or pie containing a mixture originally including cheese, later usually curds or cream, eggs, sugar, butter, and various flavourings (obsolete). Subsequently: a dessert or sweet…
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Oxford lexicographers of the 1950s: Raymond Goffin, Jennifer Dawson, and Joyce Hawkins
The 1950s saw the resumption of English-language lexicography at Oxford University Press after a hiatus of two decades. Senior figures at OUP came to the conclusion that it was time…
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Frances Hardinge’s five favourite words
Frances Hardinge was brought up in a sequence of small, sinister English villages, and spent a number of formative years living in a Gothic-looking, mouse-infested hilltop house in Kent. She…
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Free Schools Access to the OED
To celebrate the OED turning 90, we are pleased to offer free access to the OED for any UK state schools and US and Canadian public K-12 schools who are not current…
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