News for December, 2010

The OED's Jesse Sheidlower talks to Marketplace about the origin of political terms.

The New Oxford American Dictionary recently declared 'refudiate' its Word of the Year. But what other new buzzwords have emerged this year?

Strictly OED ...

Co-writer of the HTOED dies at 90.

Pavlova created in New Zealand not Australia, OED rules

When will English come to a full stop?

Who first had the X factor, and what was it?

James Gleick on the revision of information in the OED

Not lost in translation: dictionary traces English words' Irish roots

Nobel: laureates and eponyms