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Merriam-Webster adds 'tweet,' other new words

(AP) -- Here's something for your Twitter feed: "Tweet" has earned a spot in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.

Technology / Other

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oxford English Dictionary may never be printed again

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5

QUT physicist corrects Oxford English Dictionary (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) physics lecturer has found a 99-year-old mistake in the Oxford English Dictionary - and is having it corrected.

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (30) | comments 125 | with audio podcast

A medicine 'classic' goes online and far afield

Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched, for the first time online, the prestigious Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Generations of consultants, trainees, and medical students have relied on this "classic" for practical guidance ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year

The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0