This shortlist is very demure, very mindful. Oxford word of the year shortlist was announced and six words are in the running ...

Oxford University Press has released its shortlist for the 2024 word of the year. Here's how to cast your vote.

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Oxford University Press has announced its 2024 Word of the Year contenders, including demure, brain rot, lore, dynamic ...

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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 ...

Editor David Cannadine takes us behind the scenes at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) to examine why this late Victorian Institution with thousands upon thousands of detailed and ...

Sadie Hasler said ditching the phrase was a "milestone", while Becky Scott said she was "amazed" it was in an Oxford dictionary in the first place A woman who challenged the Essex Girls stereotype ...

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 ...