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 ...
As it does every year, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added hundreds of new words and phrases in 2014, including “g’day,” “wackadoodle,” “bitcoin,” and “Welly wanging” — a sport where one hurls a ...
World Dictionary Day takes place on October 16, the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster, whose enormous, two-volume An American Dictionary of the English Language—published in 1828, ...
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The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than 20 new words pertaining to Korean culture in its most recent update. Getty; Alamy The Oxford English Dictionary has become the latest piece of Western ...