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.

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

Precise definitions for “bussin,” “chitterlings” and “cakewalk” will be distributed to the world in 2025 with a new dictionary issued by Oxford University Press. Last year, Oxford University Press ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

As nations across the globe face a plethora of ongoing crises, the Collins English Dictionary Tuesday revealed its 2022 word of the year to be "permacrisis," a term to describe such events.

Note: If you don’t like to read the c-word, you should probably stop reading. On the rare occasion that people think of lexicographers, they don’t usually imagine those scholars sitting around ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After three years of hard work and months of beta testing, the League for Yiddish has launched an online version of its popular Comprehensive ...

Eminem looking over at Brittany Murphy in a scene from the film '8 Mile', 2002. (Photo by Universal/Getty Images) Eminem looking over at Brittany Murphy in a scene from the film '8 Mile', 2002. (Photo ...

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary is a celebration of words and word-people: authors, editors, publishers, linguists, lexicographers, philologists, ...