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 ...

There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That's right, we're talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...

It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer. When the London Philological Society came up with ...

Amid all the hubbub over Google DNS on Thursday, the search giant also released two more helpful tools to help you get a richer search experience and improve your language skills. Google launched its ...

The Oxford English Dictionary is what’s called a historical dictionary. Along with definitions, it includes evidence of a word’s origins and notes how its usage and meaning have changed over time.

Kingsley Ugwuanyi is affiliated with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and also consults for the Oxford English Dictionary on their Nigerian English project Nigeria was recently in the spotlight when ...