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Release notes: West African English pronunciations
The 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…
Meet the Editors: Catherine Sangster
Meet Catherine Sangster, our Head of Pronunciations, whose job it is to ‘look after the bits of the dictionary that tell you how to pronounce the word you’re looking up’….
Release notes: Manx English pronunciation
Two years ago, OED began to expand coverage of pronunciations to include more varieties of English used around the world. Entries labelled as Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Irish, New…
A note on Welsh English pronunciations
This update includes the addition of more than a hundred Welsh English pronunciations for words borrowed from Welsh into English, such as cwtch, cariad, pennill, and pryddest. This represents an…
Release notes: World English pronunciations
In this update, we publish written and spoken pronunciations for several additional varieties of English. British and American English pronunciations are always given for all non-obsolete words. Now, words which…
Release notes: new features and functions
This quarterly update to OED Online brings the usual diverse sets of new and revised words, but also some changes to the site’s features and functions. In December 2015, we…
Release notes: audio pronunciations in OED Online
Audio for British and American pronunciations has been added to OED. The process of creating all the recordings required to provide this has been a major project over the last…
