Drumroll, please. It was a tough matchup, with twerk and showrooming coming on strong, but Oxford Dictionaries’ editors finally settled on the Word of 2013: Selfie.

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 ...

Harvard professor and host of the PBS acclaimed series “Finding Your Roots” Henry Louis Gates Jr. is now the editor-in-chief of the new Oxford Dictionary of African American English. NBC News ...

Historian and Director of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates Jr., will be the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. Gates, the 2018 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editors with Oxford Dictionaries have chosen the 2014 International Word of the Year. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay. Welcome, Mickey. [email protected].

The Oxford dictionaries editors have chosen their word of the year: post-truth, which they say speaks volumes on the current political climate. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula ...

What could possibly beat out "tramp stamp" and "zombie bank" as this year's hot word as deemed by the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary? "Unfriend," of course. That would be the verb … ...