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The Woot On Cougars, Blouses And Other English Words In The Last 100 Years

Last week, the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary included words like sexting, retweet and mankini for the first time. This article explains the many weird changes that the dictionary went through since its first edition in 1911.

August 19, 2011
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These Are The New Words In The Oxford English Dictionary

O Scholars of the English Oxford Dictionary, thank ye for blessing the words sexting and retweet and jeggings and mankini and cyberbullying on thy sacred book’s pages, for now we would be able to feast upon them freely and properly.

March 25, 2011
News

Oxford English Dictionary Hearts <3 As First Purely Symbolic Word

The stuffy old OED—the last word in what is and is not the English language – has decreed that <3 is a word. Or rather, the vertical version of that. It’s the first time a symbol has been included as a word. Death of the English language? Natural lexicographic evolution? Just a way to screw with QWERTY keyboard makers? All of the above, probably. And it’s not alone.

August 31, 2010
Online

Let’s Hope The Print Oxford English Dictionary Really Dies

“Falling away by tens per cent a year,” the print dictionary market “is just disappearing”. That’s what Oxford University Press CEO Nigel Portwood says. And that’s exactly why the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may be online only.

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