In celebrating its centenary anniversary, the twelfth edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary adds 400 new words, for a total of 240,000 total entries. noun: the use of electronic ...

The dictionary’s inclusion of the word comes nearly two years after another version of the dictionary – the Concise Oxford English Dictionary – added the word “retweet” to its vast ...

The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is out in stores today, and it lets a stampede of modern, webby words into the fold — and some of them may seem much more at home ...

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is now 100 years old. It is the best known of the "smaller" Oxford dictionaries, which are smaller in size than the Oxford English Dictionary which aims to be ...

By recognizing that people can tweet, too, the main Oxford English Dictionary is playing catch up with its smaller, snappier cousin, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

Scholars of the Concise English Oxford Dictionary, thank ye for blessing the words sexting and retweet and jeggings and mankini and cyberbullying on thy sacred book’s pages, for now we would be ...

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary then (1911) brabble: paltry noisy quarrel foozle: (slang) do clumsily, bungle, make a mess of growlery: growling; place to growl in, private room, den ...

By recognizing that people can tweet, too, the main Oxford English Dictionary is playing catch up with its smaller, snappier cousin, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

The dictionary used the Oxford English Corpus — a research project into English in the 21st century — to come up with the lists.

Oxford University Press Blog (CBS) - Writers and editors no longer have to feel guilty for using words like "retweet" and "sexting" in earnest. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has officially ...

By recognizing that people can tweet, too, the main Oxford English Dictionary is playing catch up with its smaller, snappier cousin, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.