Tag: Oxford English Dictionary
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The Oxford English Dictionary celebrates one hundred years of Roald Dahl.
Last week marked the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth and to celebrate, the Oxford English Dictionary has published a range of revised and newly drafted entries containing references to Roald Dahl’s writing in its latest update. The words included are recognisably ‘Dahlesque’ and while not all are coined by him, they have magical qualities that…
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The greatest enterprise of its time – The Oxford English Dictionary
It’s Wednesday 6 June 1928 and Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, is officially launching a book that has taken 70 years to complete. ‘Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays – they are all in this one book,’ he says. ‘It is true that I have not read it – perhaps I never…