Historical Thesaurus: On Sounds and Sense
Christian Kay on sounds and sense in the HTOED.
Christian Kay on sounds and sense in the HTOED.
Who won our NBA contest?
Professor Christian Kay on the press interest in the HTOED.
Ammon Shea reveals how the Oxford Word of the Year is chosen.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of “dandy.”
Senior OED editor Edmund Weiner, one of the authors of The Ring of Words, on Tolkien’s language.
Ammon Shea explores the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
How could you use the HTOED to rewrite the Gettysburg Address?
Some facts and figures about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Timeline for the HTOED.
OUP is giving it away to celebrate the National Book Awards!
A special podictionary episode with Philip Durkin.
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 […]
Mark Peters looks at the various uses of “hench” as a prefix.
Anatoly Liberman tours the history of the word tram.