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  1. 6小时前

    Word of the Day: muktuk

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  2. 11月9日

    What is the 'rainbow wave' phenomenon? On this week's Word Watch, offers a lexical insight into the term many commentators have been using to describe the results of the US

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  3. 11月9日

    Word of the Day: abecedarian

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  4. 11月8日

    What is the 'hood' in 'neighbourhood'? explains on the blog:

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    11月7日

    As part of the celebrations of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 90th birthday, Dr Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford Dictionaries' Director of Global Partnerships) will be hosting a live session about how crowdsourcing can be used to build dictionaries. Sign up here:

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  6. 11月8日

    Word of the Day: maunder

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  7. 11月7日

    Why is Bob your uncle, and who is Jack the lad? 🤔

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  8. 11月7日

    Different than, different from, or different to..?

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  9. 11月7日

    Word of the Day: rodomontade - boastful or inflated talk or behaviour.

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    11月5日

    Oxford Dictionaries has launched a new Telugu->English dictionary website:

    screen shot of entry for "అనువాదం"
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    11月2日

    "Weekly Word Watch: welly-wanging, korowai, and Statue of Unity" by for

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  12. 11月6日

    Know a teller of tall tales? Of far-fetched accounts of unlikely veracity?

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    11月5日

    'Gerrymandering' (redrawing election boundaries to suit your political party) is a of 'Gerry' + 'salamander', after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's 1812 reorganisation of districts, one with a salamander shape

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  14. 11月6日

    Word of the Day: bastide

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  15. 11月5日

    & the British idiom 'damp squib' refers to a situation or event which turns out to be much less impressive than expected (just as damp fireworks fizzle & disappoint). Since 'squib' is now rare, this phrase is often misheard & repeated as 'damp squid' 🦑🎇

    I love a CATHERINE WHEEL but suspect it would pale into insignificance beside a SQUIB [= 'several large fireworks detonated simultaneously'] as explained in this sound recording from Bridgwater, Somerset
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    11月3日

    'In the 19th century, the criminal underworld used punk as slang for a wicked woman' – explores the long and fascinating history of the word 'punk'.

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    11月5日

    "Folksonomies: how to do things with words on social media" by

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  18. 11月5日

    Word of the Day: inutile

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  19. 11月4日

    Word of the Day: hornswoggle

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  20. 11月3日

    Word of the Day: eidolon

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