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“Quarterly updates”
Toppers, pipperoos, and rumptydoolers: ‘excellent’ words in the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
In a recent blog post on the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED), we noted that one of the categories which has expanded significantly in recent years is excellent. To…
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Shock! Horror! It’s a shaggy dog story.
The September OED release includes revised entries for SHOCK and related words. An intriguing group of words for dogs, dating back to the early modern period, is included in this…
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Cabinet reshuffle: from furniture to politics in a single OED entry
Working on the OED is a constant education. Not only are you exposed to words and ideas from fields far beyond your own, but even everyday terms and expressions can…
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OED September 2022 release notes: New Words
This quarterly update for the OED is top banana, no doubt about it. As usual, new entries have been created as part of our wide-ranging revision process, and we’ll talk…
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Release notes: East African English
Recent OED updates have included a significant number of new entries from South Africa and Nigeria. In this quarterly update, the OED continues to broaden its coverage of words from…
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From Pythagoreans to soysages: words relating to vegetarianism and veganism in the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
As we were updating the entries soy and soya this quarter, we took the opportunity to review our coverage of words for vegetarian and vegan foods and diets in the…
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Release notes: IGN-
A verdict of ignoramus The word ignoramus is today most familiar to us as a way to describe a stupid or ignorant person; however, the word has its origins in…
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Stress busting and smoking hot: the OED June 2022 update
The latest update to the OED includes over 700 new entries and senses. These range alphabetically from the East African ahoi (a person or body of people given the right…
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Flattery and incongruous mixtures in the Historical Thesaurus of the OED
One of the words added to the OED this update is plámás, used in Irish English to mean ‘flattery; insincere or exaggerated praise, esp. when used to cajole or persuade’…
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Content warning: may contain notes on the OED March 2022 update
This update contains nearly 700 words, senses, and phrases which have been researched, defined, and included in OED for the first time, from absolute threshold to ydraw. Absolute threshold, the…
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