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 performance at the MTV Video ...

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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 ...

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town ...

Kingsley Ugwuanyi is affiliated with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also consults for the Oxford English Dictionary on their Nigerian English project Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, the ...