Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

Rark up, sweet as and mōrena have made it into the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Eleven words of New Zealand or te ...

Kingsley Ugwuanyi is affiliated with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also consults for the Oxford English Dictionary on their Nigerian English project Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has updated its definition of the word “woman” in its latest gender review, after complaints it was “sexist”. In the latest edition of the world-famous dictionary it has ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...