In a recent article in the New York Review of Books "The Information Palace", James Glieck writes about how the entry for the word "information" in the venerable Oxford English Dictionary has been overhauled. He notes that the definition of the noun "I… more »

Several new titles were recently added to Oxford Reference Online: * The Oxford Book of Health Foods * The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age * A Dictionary of Creation Myths * The New Oxford Companion to Law See the list of a… more »

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. This update includes the latest edition of the celebrated Oxford Guide to Lit… more »

big whoop, hot swap, jasm, subprime, wantaway, cookie cutter and more... Here are some "new words" that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has released in the last few months. The OED, published by Oxford University Press is widely acknowledged… more »