It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer.

The largest English-Polish dictionary issued to date, containing over 500,000 lexical items with accurate, unambiguous translations, typical collocations and grammatical constructions, and thousands ...

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 ...

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

Dr. Philip Durkin is Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English.