Recent updates to the OED
The OED is updated four times a year, every March, June, September, and December.
The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries (which replace the older versions), and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range.
Published quarterly since 2000, the updates make up the Third Edition of the OED.
The latest update: March 2012
In the March update we revise some 'linguistic colossi’, including time (with 607 terms in 110 entries), blood (with 440 lexical items in 106 entries), and gas (with 363 lexical items in 130 entries).
The latest revision also sees updates to modes of transport, which are significant indicators of social and lexical change, along with other subjects including health, education, and business.
Read more about the revisions in the March update from the Chief Editor of the OED, John Simpson.
Take a closer look at some of the new senses added to the OED, from dataveillance and geotagging to soz and bouffy.
The OED publishes four updates a year. The next update will be added to the dictionary in June 2012.
Previous updates
The previous updates page gives a full list of updates from March 2000 to December 2011.