OUPblog sets sail on the Queen Mary 2
OUP UK’s Kate FT blogs from the Queen Mary 2.
OUP UK’s Kate FT blogs from the Queen Mary 2.
An interactive crossword puzzle to celebrate the OED’s 80th birthday.
The origins of Beatlemania.
A crossword puzzle based on Reading the OED.
Rebecca hopes you will join her in “Fat Talk Free Week”.
Sarah Russo twitters the OED’s birthday celebrations.
Peters explores the word “Cylon”.
Ammon Shea tells us why book spines inspire him.
A tale to help us celebrate Yom Kippur.
Looking at the character of Brünnhilde from Wagner’s The Ring.
Cassie reads a dictionary of slang and shares some of the great words she finds.
‘Credit crunch’ is OUP UK’s Word of the Year.
An excerpt from Clara E. Rodríguez’ book, Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood.
One of my personal favourite new releases this season in the UK is the paperback edition of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross. I could have chosen any one of hundreds of great anecdotes from and about authors I love, but in the end I decided to share with you this […]
Some proverbial advice for bloggers.
Long ago, on the Spanish island of Majorca, a young boy spent most of each day at the shore, sketching the ships that sailed into the harbor. Solomon was a wonderful artist, everyone agreed. His drawings seemed so real that people wondered if the waves were as wet as they seemed-or the sun as hot.