
Making use of new resources in LGBT history
The availability of three new online archives made us wonder what new evidence we could uncover by returning to some of the entries which we’ve already revised…
Find out moreThe availability of three new online archives made us wonder what new evidence we could uncover by returning to some of the entries which we’ve already revised…
Find out moreOver the last year, the Oxford Languages group, which is made up of the OED team alongside our other dictionary projects and teams, has been reviewing its organizational structure and…
Find out moreThe OED‘s latest update sees the addition of several Nigerian English words, including bukateria, danfo, and tokunbo . This was the perfect opportunity for OED’s pronunciation team to add a West…
Find out moreMy English-speaking is rooted in a Nigerian experience and not in a British or American or Australian one. I have taken ownership of English. This is how acclaimed Nigerian writer…
Find out moreThe January 2020 update to the Oxford English Dictionary is now online, and OED lexicographers having rubbed their minds together are ready to share the latest contributions to their work…
Find out moreDavid-Antoine Williams takes a bird’s-eye-view of Caribbean English, as documented in the OED, as a way of highlighting some of the lexicological and lexicographical issues at stake.
Find out moreFrom ‘fake news’ to ‘Jedi mind trick’, let us ‘loop you in’ with the latest OED update:
Find out moreIn the first part of this blog post, we discussed an antedating for tea found in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC). That instance, in a 1643 letter by…
Find out moreWho creates and adopts new vocabulary in the history of English? A team of University of Helsinki researchers discuss new antedatings for both ‘cha’ and ‘tea’ from the time of the English Civil War:
Find out moreThis month’s update marked a small but colourful milestone in Oxford lexicographers’ use of social media as a source for illustrative quotations.
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