"Retweet" is one of the new words being added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, reports The Telegraph. Other words include "sexting" and "woot" -- words that show the influence of technology ...

A woman came up to me with a handsome, black and white, speckled cocker spaniel in tow. "Freckles barks all of the time," she said, indicating the dog beside her. "I know he's trying to communicate ...

As the Concise Oxford English Dictionary celebrates its centenary, Channel 4 News speaks to the editor about how words such as mankini, woot, and jeggings make it onto its pages. It’s one of the best ...

For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language. "The" ...

Frank's brother Henry caused a stir in Rocquaine with his jogging outfit Research has revealed that one of the brothers who edited the first Concise Oxford Dictionary failed to find work as head of ...

This fortress-like Victorian monolith was once the Post Office Savings Bank’s administrative offices: intangible "savings" were processed here. Now it holds more tangible assets: the reserve ...

THIS is so far the best of the smaller and cheaper English dictionaries that comparison seems almost ludicrous. We have a book of nearly 1500 pages, well printed and stoutly bound, for seven and ...

(1) IT is curious that so many industrious JL persons have issued, in the course of the last eighty years, one-sided dictionaries of Kafir (Xosa) dialect of the great Zulu language, and that no one ...