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From the humble chip to the finest flour: an update on etymology
Among the words in this latest quarterly release there are quite a few etymologies of common words with long histories in English. Among those that date back to the earliest…
Guidance on labels and date ranges: how the OED labels (really, really, really) old words
The OED offers a record of English as it has been used for more than 1,000 years and each entry tells the story of a word’s place in the English…
Professor Eric Stanley (1923-2018)
His many friends at the Oxford English Dictionary were saddened to hear of the death of Professor Eric Stanley of Pembroke College, Oxford, and until his retirement (in 1991) Rawlinson…
The OED in two minutes
Modern English includes words from a wide variety of different sources around the world. Patterns of word-borrowing over time reflect the changing demography of its speakers; cultural and economic influences…
