This quarter, one of the pronunciation team’s main activities has been to build up OED’s coverage of World Englishes. You can see the full list of words to be added in this update here. Also be sure to have a read of OED Senior Consultant Phonetics Editor, Matthew Moreland’s blog on the New Zealand Transcription Model.įinally, ever wondered about the history of the word GROOM? Matthew Bladen, OED Senior Editor, delves into it here. Take a look at the additions to New Zealand English in this blog post by Danica Salazar, OED Executive Editor. Learn more about the words added to the OED this quarter in our new words notes by OED Executive Editor, Craig Leyland.ĭiscover the biblical origins of VIRAGO in this post by Eleanor Maier, OED Executive Editor. The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes over 1,400 fully revised and updated entries, and over 700 new words, phrases, and senses appear for the first time, including deepfake, antigram, and groomzilla. The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries (which replace the older versions), and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range. The OED is updated on a quarterly basis, and the updates make up the Third Edition of the OED.

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