Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Like painting the Forth Bridge” is an expression often used in Britain to describe, in the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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 ...
The list of new words being added to the Oxford English Dictionary this January has been released, and you may be familiar with a lot of them. “Snowflake”, “mansplaining”, “hangry”... if you’re an ...