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 ...

An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book ...

A former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary secretly deleted words he didn’t like. A-ha! So there is another perk of editing the dictionary beyond license to deliver “if you look up X in ...

Former Oxford English Dictionary editor secretly deleted thousands of terms with foreign origin. By SEAN O'HARE . Published: 05:10 EDT, 27 November 2012 | Updated: 05:23 EDT, 28 November 2012 .

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.

Thursday was Wolvercote Cemetery and the resting place of my hero James Murray, the longest-serving Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 up to his death in 1915.

Katherine Connor Martin, an editor at Oxford Dictionaries, told the New York Times, "When we were looking through the evidence, it was just clear that issues relating to the climate were running ...

Oxford editors regularly appeal to the public for help in pinpointing the first recorded use of a word — a process known as antedating. In the case of e-mail, the earliest example dates from ...

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.

Editors at Oxford found that use of the word has doubled in 2014 over the prior year. It can also be traced back to the explosion of the electronic cigarette industry.which topped $1 billion in ...

In the 128 years since the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published, one of its greatest guiding principles has been that no word should ever be removed, explaining why the ...