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January 13, 2011
James Joyce, 1941
James Joyce died today in 1941. Find out about the man and his words.
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?