Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

Each year, the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) update the prestigious tome with new words. In 2022, over 650 new words were added, ranging from slang and tech terms to pop ...

But it defines only 42,773 words. While that might sound like a lot, today the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides definitions of over 600,000.” Large teams are responsible for compiling ...

I reached out to the big brains at the Oxford English Dictionary -- you know, the whopping, multi-volume dictionary that no ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has just added a slew of Jewish ... These are always labelled as such,” the OED said in a statement. A few other new additions also tread potentially offensive ...

BRUSSELS--Twenty-three Japanese words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the March ... On its homepage, the OED states that the work is the definitive record of the English language ...

is now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary, because there just isn ... “I think the Chinglish word “chur” should be included in OED. It’s commonly used by teens and adults ...