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Brit Dailies in Kerfuffle Over OED Bragging Rights

LONDON (Nov. 30) -- British newspapers are battling it out for the title of greatest contributor to the English language. "You read it here first: words the Telegraph lexiconated," announced today's Daily Telegraph. The Times of London similarly crowed, "You read it here first: The Times is biggest source for OED."...

Is the Oxford Dictionary the New Urban Dictionary?

(Sept. 17) -- It's that time of year again (or is it tiem?). The Oxford University Press this week released its latest list of new word entries for The New Oxford American Dictionary, and, of course, they are all pop culture, Web-savvy terms, as they've been for just about the past decade (the first edition was published...

Oxford English Dictionary May Abandon Print

LONDON (Aug. 30) -- Extinct. Dead. Kaput. Those are just a few of the words that could soon be used to describe the printed version of the world's most prestigious reference work, the Oxford English Dictionary. Its publishers have revealed that they may release the upcoming third edition of the OED online only. The second...

Word Up: British Dictionary Just Twigs to 'Chill Pill'

LONDON (Aug. 20) -- Ever defriended a hater or chillaxed with a vuvuzela? No? Well, apparently a lot of other people have, because along with 2,000 other terms, those ungainly words have just been granted a place in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. Unlike the more prestigious multivolume Oxford...

Unused but Useful: Oxford English Dictionary's Reject List

LONDON (Aug. 6) -- Ever engaged a freegan in nonversation, or does the very idea make you want to precuperate? If you haven't a clue what we're talking about, don't worry, you're probably not xenolexic. The bizarre terms used in those last two sentences are "non words": Words that have allegedly been submitted to the...