Tag: Oxford English Dictionary

New Delhi: Grabbing a dictionary to know the meaning of a word may now have become a thing of the past in the online world, but Google Doodle on Monday decided to honour Samuel Johnson, the man who compiled a mammoth dictionary of the English language 150 years before the Oxford English Dictionary appeared. Son […]

London: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced on Monday for the first time that it has chosen not to name one single word of the year, but many words for the “unprecedented” year 2020. Describing 2020 as “a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single word,” OED said that there were too many words […]