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“Quarterly updates”
Whoop-de-do! It’s the OED September 2021 update
Whooooooo-eeeee, it’s update time again. We’re coming in hot with over 837 new entries and senses to the definitive record of the English language, and there’s a lot to take…
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Working some lexicographical magic: the revision of witch
As we move from summer to autumn and Halloween appears on the horizon, it is apt that a number of the words for the latest OED Online quarterly release have…
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Malignant monsters and the limbo in the HTOED
Please note that a subscription to the OED is required to access the Historical Thesaurus . Learn about subscription options, or, if your library or institution offers access to the…
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Daebak! The OED gets a K-update
K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, K-food, K-style—these days, everything seems to be getting prefixed with a K- as South Korea’s popular culture continues to rise in international popularity. South Korean director Bong…
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A carnival of words: Caribbean English in the OED September 2021 update
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, a landmark work of World English lexicography that continues to be the most authoritative…
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Speed read: the revision of fast and slow
Published this quarter are the revised entries for fast and slow. Although fast and slow are antonyms the entries, and those for derived words, do not exactly mirror each other,…
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Oh my days! It’s the OED June 2021 update
This quarter’s update to OED includes nearly 700 newly researched and defined entries and senses, including additions to revised ranges of words including bias, card, carry, common, fast and slow,…
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Here’s the whole box and dice on the OED March 2021 update
Well ding-dong, it’s time for OED‘s quarterly update for March 2021, in which nearly 750 existing entries have been subjected to the freshening attentions of our team of researchers, editors,…
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From chingas to chopsing: introducing Bermudian English
Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of working with the OED as a consultant on a set of new Bermudian English entries. While the addition of this batch…
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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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