Material world: the language of textiles
The English language is rich in words for fabrics and textiles imported from various regions of the world. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in particular an enormous number…
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P.G. Wodehouse in the OED
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, born in 1881, came of age at the dawn of mass culture. He was an Englishman of that generation, shaped by the Education Act of 1870, for…
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March 2011 update: revision notes
Up and running online It is a remarkable thing to have a new web site. And it is remarkable to see how much the environment has changed over the ten…
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March 2011 update: new words notes
New initialisms in the OED OMG and LOL, FYI For the March 2011 release of OED Online, we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the…
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September 2009: revision notes
Down to the ‘wire’: the latest OED updates This quarter’s release of new and updated words for the OED addresses ten key words (clone, drug, face, global, image, Indian, skin,…
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December 2009 update: revision notes
OED publication range No 40 (refund – reputeless) is set right in the middle of the re- series of words. On the face of it, this may seem a reasonably…
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September 2009: new words notes
This OED release includes a characteristically wide variety of entirely new entries, as well as many newly added senses, compounds, and phrases. In the last category, a number of evocative…
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December 2008 update: revision notes
In October the OED held a series of seminars and talks in Oxford and elsewhere to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the completion of the first edition of the dictionary…
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September 2008 update: revision notes
Keywords updated: round two March 2008 saw a significant innovation in the publication of revised and updated OED entries, with the appearance online of a series of major terms outside…
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March 2007 update: revision notes
The revised range of the OED published on 15 March 2007 runs from Prakrit to prim. It contains 2,693 entries (8,756 subsenses, including compounds, etc.). This brings the total number…
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