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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…
Gender and genre: students, researchers, and the OED
Professor Susan Watkins reflects on using the OED as an important way of reflecting on the history of gender and sexuality in relation to women’s writing.
Resistance is fertile: the language born of the feminist movement
Ninety years ago today, while Charles Onions and his team were raising a glass to the completion of a project that had been fifty years in the offing, women across…
Spoiler alert! New words notes for June 2018
The June 2018 update of the OED adds more than 900 new words and senses, including the selection of items described in greater detail below. The full list of entries can be…
Release notes: the formal language of sexuality and gender identity
It is fifty years and more since the social phenomenon known as the sexual revolution began to sweep much of the western world. In the subsequent decades, the words with…
Release notes: coming out
A brief history of coming out The OED’s June 2017 update sees the publication of another blockbuster entry, come, which follows similar recently updated entries like go (its close cousin),…
