I wonder if I could cheat and go for a genre rather than an individual book? Maybe the literary editor will be too busy to notice. It has to be a dictionary: any dictionary. From as early as I can ...

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. By Dennis Duncan Dennis ...

A new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary. By Pippa Bailey When James Murray, the then editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ...

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The OED’s quarterly update features new terms related to politics, sex, technology and the environment “Wokery”, “safe word”, “forever chemical” and “swear box” have all been added to the Oxford ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From forty-nine citations that the Oxford English Dictionary attributes to the book Meanderings of Memory, by an author known only as Nightlark, believed to have been published in 1852. In… ...