It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a dusty box and came across a small black book tied with cream ribbon. That ...

The Oxford English Dictionary first cites the use of the term foodie in a 1980 story by New York Magazine restaurant critic ...

The word of the year is a word, or expression, that Oxford Dictionaries deems has "attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date" and is drawn from newspapers, books, blogs and ...

Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is coming to the Canberra Theatre Centre stage and we're ...

Next week, the first full moon since the Harvest Moon will fill the sky for three days. This moon, known as the “Hunter’s ...

At the same time that Collins Books was burnishing its reputation in Seattle, a teenager named Bill Wolfe was looking for ...

A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its latest update. Editors say the 10 Welsh words and phrases have been included as they have been ...

The Oxford lexicographers have updated the dictionary with 29 Nigerian words ... the OED cites the use of "sef" by author Ben Okri in his 1980 book Flowers and Shadows. But in accepting Nigerian ...

An Oxford University professor of English has said state-educated students struggle to read long novels. According to reports, students are less able to read than previous generations amid a ...

‘Finger bowl’ is different from ‘wash-hand basin.’ The former is the plastic moved around for washing of hands, while the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has more than 500,000 entries ... was first appeared in an English source, such as a book, letter or newspaper, from 1749. The word comes from the post-classical ...

And as part of fantasy lore, dragons have been around for thousands of years. The first mention of dragons is thought to be ...