Fact Check. Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word “twerk” to its collection.The addition came after Miley Cyrus’ widely discussed ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added a total of 18 new LGBTQ-related words in 2022 — an effort to acknowledge the diverse communities of LGBTQ people around the world, their shared and ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. Skip to content Skip to site index.

The Dictionary People. By Sarah Ogilvie. Knopf; 384 pages; $30. Chatto & Windus; £20. I n July 1915 an ailing James Murray (pictured), one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is what’s called a historical dictionary. Along with definitions, it includes evidence of a word’s origins and notes how its usage and meaning have changed over time.

The Oxford English Dictionary traced its usage back to 1985. Yoh is a popular interjection that is used in South Africa. It comes from two languages -Afrikaans and isiXhosa (stock photo of Cape Town) ...

The Oxford lexicographers have updated the dictionary with 29 Nigerian words, recognising the "unique and distinctive contribution to English as a global language" of Africa's most populous country.

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) ...

Source: Oxford English Dictionary. But there are the fundamentalists befuddled by what they consider "street words" having made it into the dictionary.