Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

Not long ago, a book that is truly a gorgeous thing, in all senses of the word, was published. It is a third and expanded edition of a full-length dictionary of the Native American language Lakota ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on ...

The beauty of an Oxford Dictionary focused on AAVE is that it will expand the scholarship on this important dialect of American English — it promises to be the most in-depth study of Black ...

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.) ... (600,000 entries) gives hardly a hint that the American language is in the grip of a permanent revolution.

Long before Noah Webster completed his 1828 magnum opus, “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” he published a wildly successful primer called “A Grammatical Institute of the ...

The Oxford Dictionary of African-American English will also include “old school,” or its variant “old skool” — characteristic of hip-hop or rap music born in New York City as the 1970s ...

Below, find 10 of the definitions and etymologies included in the soon-to-be-published dictionary and revealed by the Times. bussin (adjective and participle): 1. Especially describing food: tasty ...

A comprehensive dictionary is being compiled to showcase the impact Black Americans have had on the development of the English language. The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE ...

Words that reflect the zeitgeist: 2024 was very online. A Year Defined By 'Brain Rot' and 'Brat' Ever since the American Dialect Society first selected a Word of the Year at its 1990 conference ...

You may be familiar with the Oxford English Dictionary, but what about the Dictionary of American Regional English?. In 1965, researchers from the American Dialect Society set out on an ambitious ...