Oxford's suite of dictionary apps have been quietly removed from the iTunes app store, leaving customers with unsupported premium apps. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...
The Oxford English Dictionary has given YouTubers some career validation. "YouTuber" is among the 500 or so new words — including "Brexit" and "hackathon" — added to the OED this month. Image: oxford ...
Too bad there isn't an "emoji" that can properly depict the look on grammar gurus' faces when they find out that the word "twerk" has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO). It would ...
2018 has been a lot of things but one word seems to sum it up best: toxic. At least that's according to Oxford Dictionaries' official word of the year selection. The British publisher said "toxic" ...
The 2024 "Words of the Year" were revealed from top dictionaries like Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and Cambridge. Dictionary.com’s top word was "demure," reflecting a surge in popularity ...
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LONDON - In true COVID-19 pandemic fashion, Oxford English Dictionary has named "vax" as the 2021 word of the year. "When our lexicographers began digging into our English language corpus data it ...
Of the many, many words that editors at Oxford Dictionaries review which have newly come into the language lexicon, only one has had enough of an influence in society to make it as 2014's ...
Last year Oxford University Press split its word of the year honors between the US and the UK, but for 2013 there’s one word to rule them all — and it is “selfie.” The term beat out contenders like ...