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January 30, 2011

Literary lunch: books with everything

The OED celebrates a most unorthodox bookseller

January 28, 2011

Imp, wag, loon

The youth of yester-year...

January 26, 2011

Australia Day

A bonzer piece from Bruce Moore to mark the day

January 25, 2011

Och aye the noo!

It's Burns night—but what does och aye actually mean?

January 20, 2011

Ask not...

A celebrated speech from Camelot

January 18, 2011

Think of a word

Read the story of one man's thesaurus and discover another...

January 15, 2011

Curiouser and curiouser

The OED's adventures in Wonderland...

January 14, 2011

OED in the New York Times

John Simpson on the NYT Tech Talk podcast

January 13, 2011

James Joyce, 1941

James Joyce died today in 1941. Find out about the man and his words.

January 10, 2011

Plough Monday

Traditional England lives on!

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