You probably have a nice leather-bound dictionary and wonder why you would ever need an online one. One thing: in a newsroom, dictionaries tend to grow legs and walk away. An online dictionary can ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) is adding a slew of words that only recently came into general usage, many driven by fast-moving trends in technology and culture. Yes, “twerk” is now in the ...

Channel 4’s Daytime favourite, Countdown, is changing with the times. Over thirty years since the launch of the long running series, Countdown is replacing the traditional print version of the Oxford ...

Bitcoin has made it onto Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) in the respected resource's latest quarterly update. The term has been added to ODO alongside around 120 other words, including 'flatform' (a ...

You may be surprised to learn that Word does not come with a dictionary even though it has a thesaurus. Microsoft configured Word so that people can choose their own dictionaries. If you have an ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which a team of 80 lexicographers ...