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The Oxford English Dictionary – the “OED” to its friends – has announced a 2016 update, consisting of over 1,000 new words and word meanings, along with the revision or expansion of over ...

Editor David Cannadine takes us behind the scenes at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) to examine why this late Victorian Institution with thousands upon thousands of detailed and ...

Compiling a dictionary is a long trek: at every step, a pitfall, a furrow or a rock.” Thus Maurice Druon, the Perpetual ...

Dictionary.com isn't the only website that has announced its Word of the Year. On Nov. 20, Cambridge Dictionary crowned ...