The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

The world's largest publisher of scholarly information just got bigger. Oxford University Press (OUP) is publishing its core language and subject reference dictionaries online for the first time, ...

A legal practitioner, Ogedi Ogu, has filed a N10m lawsuit against the Oxford University Press, publisher of Oxford Dictionary, over the alleged wrongful definition of the words “mortgagee’’ and ...

Oxford University Press makes amends to the definition of the word ‘woman’ after several petitions filed last year criticised the inclusion of sexist labels like ‘bitch, bint, wench’ and other ...

It’s not just you. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the august Oxford English Dictionary, is also going a bit fuzzy between the ears. After digging through its enormous database, it has ...

US election and EU referendum drive popularity of adjective describing situation ‘in which objective facts are less influential than appeals to emotion’ In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford ...

To compile a dictionary of nearly every word in the English language was an endeavour typical of Victorian times, complete with white-bearded gentlemen, utter confidence and an endearingly plodding ...