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OED rules that everything is now officially ‘gay’
Compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary have declared that everyone and everything must be defined as gay from now on. According to editor-in-chief Dr Mark Boyle, a team of linguistic experts from...
View ArticleOxford police ‘lost for words’ by violence at underground ‘scrabble’ evenings
Disturbing footage from an upcoming BBC Panorama episode looking at modern dictionary-making techniques has been handed to the Oxford Police. The images are of organised ‘cagefights’ between...
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OED grants ‘working from home’ full ironic status
In a move welcomed by office workers everywhere, the Oxford English Dictionary has today granted full ironic status to the expression ‘working from home’. This status will initially apply to Fridays...
View ArticlePublished –‘Dictionary’– the post-truth edition
Having named post-truth as the word of the year, The Oxford English Dictionary’s post truth edition will be available online tomorrow, after a book launch on the moon in 1835, attended by Elvis...
View ArticleVogue words for 2017: A Newsbiscuit guide
Stuck for something smart to say about Brexit? Impress your friends immediately by dropping some of these new 2017 dictionary entries into your conversations ‘Brexting’ – sending rude texts to anyone...
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