Senior Evan Tionquiao said he used to follow the dictionaries’ selections “back when words had meaning, prior to ‘brain rot’ ...

In addition to my trusty “The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,” Oxford University Press publishes countless specialized dictionaries — on modern slang, abbreviations, world place names, ...

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LONDON – According to the august Oxford English Dictionary, going bananas was simply not done before 1968, nobody went bonkers before 1957 and no one went to the loo before 1940. But the publishers of ...

Somewhere out there, during the early days of networked communication, somebody probably complained about a lengthy term and decided to do something about it. At that point, the editors of the Oxford ...

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Words skip across borders duty-free, importing ideas without a customs stamp. All English speakers think daily in contraband, even those who would rather not. “Zeitgeist” didn’t start out English.