In a year of nonstop news and cultural moments, what word will capture the tone of 2024? Oxford University Press has narrowed ...

IPhone users now have access to the New Oxford American Dictionary right in the palm of their hands. Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile media, announced an application for iPhone and iPod ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary Announces the Word of the Year: 'Carbon Neutral' NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- What do Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch, and the Rolling Stones have in common?

Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022, over 650 new words were added, ranging from slang and tech terms to pop ...

people came to realize that the American turkey and the guinea fowl (the bird that sparked the whole case of mistaken ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

Biography is an endlessly fascinating subject for a wide variety of readers. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is the most up-to-date and comprehensive, single-volume, biographical ...

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even ...

A legendary college town. Recently cited by Yahoo as the #3 College Town in the United States. Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami's main campus, is a picturesque town brimming with ideas and opportunities.

Let’s get one thing straight before Election Day — and before nearly half the electorate votes for him: Donald Trump was ...

The American owners of one of Oxford's most famous pubs have informed drinkers scaffolding will be put up, a year on from buying the building. The Eagle and Child in St Giles has now been closed ...