Beloved British author Roald Dahl is known both for his works of children’s literature and his utterly Dahl verbiage. Books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach are ...
There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That's right, we're talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...
WHEN you see something cute — a baby, an object or an animal, for example, and you feel the urge to squeeze whatever it is, there is now an English word for it. And that word happens to originate from ...
It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, ...
Pittsburgh's iconic local lingo, "jagoff," is now officially a part of the "gold standard" of dictionaries in the English-speaking world: The Oxford English Dictionary.Defined as a "stupid, irritating ...
The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize that ...
And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...
After graduate school, I treated myself to a full set — that's 20 very large and heavy volumes — of the Oxford English Dictionary for my home office. It was a very on-brand purchase for me, and also a ...
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