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“Varieties of English”
Release notes: Irish English
Most of the OED’s quarterly updates in recent years have featured the results of our ongoing work on broadening the dictionary’s coverage of world varieties of English and tracing the…
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Language prejudice and the documentation of minoritized varieties of English
The following blog post is a summary of the OED’s recent panel discussion, by panellist Dr Jeanette Allsopp. You can find the recording of this event on the OED’s webinars…
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Introduction to Philippine English
The Philippines is home to over 100 million people spread across 7,107 islands in Southeast Asia. Among the more than 100 mostly Austronesian languages spoken in this densely populated archipelago…
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Introduction to Malaysian English
The use of English in present day Malaysia traces its beginnings back to the British presence in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Singapore, and Melaka from the 18th century. English was…
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Introduction to Irish English
Ireland is an island in northwest Europe, west of England, which consists politically of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the latter of which has been a constituent part…
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Introduction to Indian English
In less than 200 years since its formal introduction as part of a nascent and westernized education system, English has grown to be the medium through which the people of…
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Introduction to New Zealand English
The original inhabitants of New Zealand were the Māori who arrived by canoe over 1,000 years ago from the Eastern Pacific. In 1840, representatives of the British government and Māori…
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Introduction to Hong Kong English
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of China, and a de facto city state of some 7 million people, located on the coast of Guangdong province in Southern China….
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An introduction to words of Korean origin
The OED includes dozens of words originating in the Korean language and/or related to Korea. Although the oldest of these words are attested in English as early as the 17th…
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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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