IPhone users now have access to the New Oxford American Dictionary right in the palm of their hands. Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile media, announced an application for iPhone and iPod ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary Announces the Word of the Year: 'Carbon Neutral' NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- What do Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch, and the Rolling Stones have in common?

Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo ...

Watching a goldfinch flit back and forth to a feeder is a good way to empty your mind. (Jim Williams) ...

The full moon falls in the midpoint of the lunar cycle when the Earth is positioned directly between the sun and the moon.

A legendary college town. Recently cited by Yahoo as the #3 College Town in the United States. Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami's main campus, is a picturesque town brimming with ideas and opportunities.

The American owners of one of Oxford's most famous pubs have informed drinkers scaffolding will be put up, a year on from buying the building. The Eagle and Child in St Giles has now been closed ...

Meanwhile, linguists including Weldon and Lanehart are currently working to bring an African American English dictionary to ...

Ten Welsh words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it has been announced. The OED is updated quarterly with new words, senses and revisions to entries ...

The hunter's moon – the first full moon of fall – will rise Thursday, Oct. 17, in the eastern sky around sunset. As an added ...