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What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

Defining nature as separate from people perpetuates troubled relationship with the natural world, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

‘Wokery’, ‘safe word’ and ‘forever chemical’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary

The OED’s latest update features new terms related to politics, sex, technology and the environment

The Guardian - UK

Rizz: I study the history of charisma – here's why the word of the year is misunderstood

The Oxford English Dictionary has selected rizz as its word of 2023. If you’ve heard of it at all, you’ll probably have heard that it comes from the word charisma. However, the OED definition pins it down as “style, charm or attractiveness, and the ability to attract a romantic or…

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Before Wikipedia, there was the OED

Salon talks to Sarah Ogilvie, author of "The Dictionary People," about the "unsung heroes" who created the OED

Salon

Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers

In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth

The Guardian - UK

Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary

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, obsessives, pedants. Its author, Sarah Ogilvie, was formerly an Oxford English Dictionary editor and wrote the 2013 book Words of the World: A Global History…

The Conversation

How misusing words can even change their dictionary definitions

Coruscating was originally a sparkling synonym, but now we understand that it’s something more scathing

The Guardian - UK

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The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie review – nerds who loved words

The linguist and lexicographer unearths the histories of the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Guardian - UK

Kia ora e hoa: dozens of New Zealand and Māori words added to Oxford English Dictionary

Newly-added words include koha – a gift or offering – and kōrero, meaning a conversation or chat

The Guardian - AU

Scots writers welcome 'jag' being added to Oxford English Dictionary

SCOTS writers have welcomed the word “jag” being added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a result of the pandemic.

The National (Scotland)

Have some dignity, Oxford English Dictionary. No one says ‘goblin mode’

I know its word of the year was put to a public vote, but the result smacks of a stunt trying too hard to go viral, says writer Rachel Connolly

The Guardian - UK

‘Goblin mode’ touched with fairy dust and given title of Oxford word of the year

‘I’ve gone goblin mode’: couch-bound in PJs, the Oxford English Dictionary lexicographers capture the mood of 2022.

Crikey

‘Permacrisis’: word of the year, or in the making? Dictionary choice apt but not commonly said

Traditionally, when a word gains traction in society, it’s added to the dictionary. Is Collins playing in reverse with its 2022 word of the year?

Crikey

Iconic Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho phrases added to Oxford English Dictionary

Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho's influence on English football has now transcended the pitch, with some of pair's iconic phrases added into the Oxford English Dictionary ahead of the World Cup

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Sixteen members of gang affiliated with violent Trinitarios are federally charged in NYC

Members were charged for five murders, 12 attempted murders, and seven gunpoint robberies

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