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Do you have an earlier record of a word which our editors are currently researching? Browse our latest appeals below and help us record the English language.
You can also find out more about the OED appeals and read about our previous appeals on the OED blog.
Can you help the OED and its readers by conducting some linguistic detective work? In the 20 years since the full-scale revision of the OED started, the range of online…
Posted by Joanne Oughtred on 12 May 2020 10.29
Tags: antedating, OED appeals
Can you help us to identify the words, phrases, and expressions particular to your workplace? Has a server ever comped your desserts? What did the plumber mean when they…
Posted by Charlotte on 30 January 2019 9.30
Tags: hub, OED appeals, words at work
Bare people confuse twitter for real life. 2:44 AM – 29 May 2018 Women should be able to get tampons free on the NHS, bare bare dolla spent on…
Posted by Andrew Allen on 19 September 2018 7.23
Tags: slang, young people, youth words
Can you help us to identify and record the words, phrases, and expressions particular to your hobby or pastime? You know that feeling you get when you’re telling someone about…
Posted by Oxford Languages on 4 July 2018 14.42
Tags: hub
Can you help us to identify and record the words, phrases, and expressions particular to where you live or where you are from?
Posted by Kirsty Gibson on 25 April 2018 6.30
Tags: hub
#staywoke. In the last few years, the injunction to ‘stay woke’ in the face of racial discrimination or social injustice has ensured that […]
Posted by OED_Editor on 25 June 2017 15.53
Tags: 1960s, 2000s, North American, slang
National Poetry Day 2017 takes place on the 28th of September, and for the occasion the BBC, working with […]
Posted by OED_Editor on 12 June 2017 23.45
Tags: 1990s, British
With the Christmas season upon us, you may find yourself hearing and saying cheers! more often, whether as a toast before drinking with friends or perhaps in exchange for a gift […]
Posted by OED_Editor on 9 December 2016 16.33
Tags: 1970s, British, Christmas, colloquial, television
An ‘Arnold Palmer’ is a refreshing, summery drink made by mixing equal parts iced tea and lemonade and named for the American professional golfer Arnold Palmer. So far, the earliest evidence we have […]
Posted by OED_Editor on 3 August 2016 13.11
Tags: 1990s, Food & Drink, golf, North American
The term appears to have been coined by Emmanuel dela Cruz, one of the writers on the series Pangako Sa ‘Yo; a 2000 article supplied by Bryn made the discovery of this coinage possible.
‘Teleserye’ is the Philippine English word for a television soap opera, combining tele- from television with the Tagalog word for series, serye. The word was apparently first used in […]
Posted by OED_Editor on 24 May 2016 15.25
Tags: 2000s, Philippine English, World English
