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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!

January 8, 2011

FA Cup 3rd round

Giants and minnows of football…

January 6, 2011

History of English in the Oxford DNB

Oxford DNB: wordsmiths from the latest update

January 3, 2011

Tolkien and the OED

On what would have been Tolkien's eleventy-ninth birthday, find out about his OED connections.

December 27, 2010

The political buzzwords of 2010

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

December 20, 2010

Words of the year

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

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