Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How the Oxford English Dictionary was brought to life in a rustic 'scriptorium'

Just to work from "A" to "ant" took the original Oxford English Dictionary team around 10 years. They thought they'd reach "Z" in that time — but gathering definitions for hundreds of thousands of ...
The New York Times

The First 10 Words of the African American English Dictionary Are In

An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) By Sandra E. Garcia In a recent online ...
Business Insider

Here's The Full Definition Of The Most Complex Word In The English Language

One of many interesting facts about words we learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex word in the language ...
Search Engine Land

Samuel Johnson Google doodle honors author behind ‘The Dictionary of the English Language’

Today’s Google doodle celebrates the British writer, Samuel Johnson, on his 308th birthday. A poet, essayist, biographer and critic, Johnson was a prolific writer, but he is often best known for his ...
insider.si.edu

A complete dictionary of the English language : both with regard to sound and meaning : one main object of which is, to establish a plain and permanent standard of ...

Signatures: pi⁴ chi₁ a-g⁴ h² A-H⁴ [I]⁴ K- 5M⁴ 5N⁴ (-5N₄). Dictionary printed in double columns. siris_sil_227518 ...