A distinguished former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary attempted to rewrite the dictionary by deleting thousands of words with foreign roots and blaming it on his predecessors, a new book ...

A Q&A with Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and author of ’Word By Word,’ on profanity, and the politics of language Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and one of the dictionary ...

Balisaur, boviander, calabazilla — if you’ve never heard of those words, you can blame Robert Burchfield, a former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, who, according to a new book by the linguist ...

London: An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary attempted to rewrite it by deleting thousands of words with foreign roots, including those of Indian-origin, a new book claims. Robert ...

AFP — A short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed “anti-Semite,” recently uncovered archival documents show. Celebrated ...