Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general ...

Ten new Welsh terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da - which means good health and is said before having a drink - is included as part ...

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 ...

Ten new Welsh words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, including the phrase for cheers. The BBC's Harriet Morgan looks at some of the new words and their pronunciation. They also ...

Burchfield, R J (1986, 1st ed.; 1997, 2nd ed.) New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary. Oxford University Press, Auckland —Burchfield, R J (1996) New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford University ...

The widely-used Chinese phrase “add oil!” is now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary, because there just isn’t a better translation for the sentiment. Originating chiefly from Hong ...

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.

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‘Sex’ is used in some biological contexts where ‘gender’ is never used as a synonym (for example, sex in the sense of genetic recombination, sex chromosomes). Therefore, it is interesting ...

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