Li Yanzhi, a university lecturer from Xi'an, spends six hours a day reading the 2,458-page dictionary from as early as 3am. Memorising all 220,000 words helps her earn more money to support son.

A Twitter Account Started Tweeting Every Word in the Dictionary 7 Years Ago. It’s About to Reach the Last One. By J. Duaine Hahn. Jason Duaine Hahn is a News Editor at Complex Magazine.

Well, not every word, but a hell of a lot of them. One every 30 minutes, to be exact, which has equated to a little more than 109,000 words. Now, the project is coming to an end.

Slang often leads to new words being added to the dictionary. For instance, among the 455 words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in October were "amirite" and "FTW." Two COVID-related ...

Saunders and his colleagues’ task was only to “read every single word in the Oxford Dictionary of English.” They didn’t actually read out the full definitions unless a word really tripped ...

24/7 Tempo has consulted the Oxford Languages Word of the Year report to compile a list of every word so designated since 2004, the first year the dictionary publisher began keeping a tally.

The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary defined 414,825 words. The ... study all of the shades of meaning expressed by a single word, ... into the OED’s offices every ...

The Philological Society of London decided they needed a better dictionary — one that documented every single word in the English language — and appealed to the Oxford University Press to fund it.