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“Word of the Year”

New words notes June 2017

The latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary includes over 1,200 new words, phrases, and senses from the newly revised alphabetic ranges and from around the alphabet. Some highlights of…

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“Word of the Year”

New words notes June 2017

Release notes: coming out

Reading Norman Mailer’s letters

Release notes: tennis terms

New words notes September 2017

Release notes: a big antedating for white lie – and introducing Shakespeare’s world

‘Kaffir’

New words notes March 2017

Release notes: Canada and the OED

Release notes: Making sense of sense

Release notes: Exploring the sources of OED quotations