National Book Award Contest: Winners!
Who won our NBA contest?
Historical Thesaurus: On dealing with the press interest
Professor Christian Kay on the press interest in the HTOED.
Finding the Word of the Year
Ammon Shea reveals how the Oxford Word of the Year is chosen.
Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of “dandy.”
The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath
Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.
Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus
Ammon Shea explores the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Historical Thesaurus Week – Christian Kay reflects
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
Rewriting The Gettysburg Address:
Historical Thesaurus Week
How could you use the HTOED to rewrite the Gettysburg Address?
The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figures
Historial Thesaurus Week
Some facts and figures about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Introducing The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Historical Thesaurus Week
The Timeline for the HTOED.
National Book Award Contest: Win Prizes!
OUP is giving it away to celebrate the National Book Awards!
Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin
A special podictionary episode with Philip Durkin.
F is for F*%#
Jesse Sheidlower is Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The F-Word. Recognized as one of the foremost authorities on obscenity in English, he has written about language for a great many publications, including a recent article on Slate. Here, Jesse discusses the criteria for including certain words or obscenities in […]
Send in the Hench-poodles! An Underrated Prefix for Underlings
Mark Peters looks at the various uses of “hench” as a prefix.
A Derailed Myth, or, a Story of the Word Tram
Anatoly Liberman tours the history of the word tram.
John Dillinger Goes to the Movies
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.