Hyperallergic

Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...
The Atlantic

How Racism Made Its Way Into the Dictionary How Racism Made Its Way Into the Dictionary How Racism Made Its Way Into the Dictionary

In June, as Black Lives Matter protests were in full swing after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a dictionary definition made headlines. The definition that drew so much ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How the Oxford English Dictionary was brought to life in a rustic 'scriptorium'

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 Next Web

AI is transforming the English dictionary

AI has made another assault on the English language. After taking the title of the Collins Dictionary word of the year, artificial intelligence this week assailed the Cambridge version. This time, the ...
NPR

A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
Smithsonian Magazine

Here’s How the Oxford English Dictionary Chooses New Words

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...