Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

Exploring the evolution of dictionaries in the digital age and the enduring value of printed dictionaries in language ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are among the latest to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Chollagh", ...

A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in the internet age.

There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region ...