"Retweet" is one of the new words being added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, reports The Telegraph. Other words include "sexting" and "woot" -- words that show the influence of ...

Last week, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary announced the newest words added to its hefty tome. Every so often, Chuzzlewitt, Figglesworth and the rest of the Concise Oxford English ...

By recognizing that people can tweet, too, the main Oxford English Dictionary is playing catch up with its smaller, snappier cousin, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The concise dictionary ...

For Twitter’s nearly six million users, tweeting isn’t only for the birds. The vast popularity of the micro-blogging site has the Oxford English Dictionary finally adding another definition to ...

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has officially enter these words into English lexicon. Celebrating 100 years of the dictionary, Oxford University Press editor Angus Stevenson wrote a blog ...

As the Concise Oxford English Dictionary celebrates its centenary, Channel 4 News speaks to the editor about how words such as mankini, woot, and jeggings make it onto its pages. It’s one of the ...

Scholars of the Concise 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 ...

THIS is so far the best of the smaller and cheaper English dictionaries that comparison seems almost ludicrous. We have a book of nearly 1500 pages, well printed and stoutly bound, for seven and ...

LONDON – For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English ...