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Latest Press Releases:
11 January 2010
Susie Dent chooses her words of the year, 2009 (pdf)
02 November 2009
More Information on The Historical Thesaurus of the OED (pdf)
02 November 2009
The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (pdf)
15 October 2009
What Made the Crocodile Cry? (pdf)
23 June 2009
Oxford Language Researchers All A-Twitter (pdf)
23 June 2009
Twitter Facts (pdf)
14 August 2008
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage Second Edition (pdf)
10 July 2008
txtng: the gr8 db8 (pdf)
03 July 2008
Concise Oxford English Dictionary Revised 11th Edition - new entries (pdf)
03 July 2008
Concise Oxford English Dictionary - word origins (pdf)
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