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What do ‘dungarees’ mean to you? Crowdsourcing an answer from Twitter
In revising one entry for a recent update, one of our editors decided to put Twitter to a different lexicographical use
Philippine English in the October 2018 update
In its latest update, the Oxford English Dictionary published several new words from Philippine English. These new additions are notable for having been brought to the dictionary’s attention by Filipino…
New words notes for October 2018
The latest update of the OED adds more than 1400 new words, senses, and phrases, including the selection of items described in greater detail below. The full list of entries…
A look under the bonnet in the October 2018 update
It’s a routine feature of words in the English language that over time they begin to demonstrate a number of figurative or extended uses of the original meaning, which then…
Raking through dunghill and rehabilitating the dunghill duck: October 2018 update
When revising the text of OED for its third edition, it is hard as an editor not to be amazed by the achievements of one’s predecessors. In compiling the first…
OED 3: The Revisioning (October 2018)
The phrase ‘the language of cinema’ is typically used when referring to visual literacy: the means by which we ‘read’ the way a film was shot and edited, with camera…
