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    Feb 23

    🍾🍾Happy update day! 🍾🍾 To find out which words have made it to today, head over to the blog:

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  3. 13 hours ago

    Explore the Latin roots of your favourite spells from the Harry Potter books:

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Fascinating insights from our Head of Pronunciation, Catherine, in her interview with The Epicurean Cure:

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    Mar 14

    OED Word of the Day: piscatory, n. and adj. (image by )

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Is it always wrong to split an infinitive? 7 grammar myths you learned at school, debunked:

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  7. 22 hours ago

    Word of the Day: primigravida

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  8. Mar 14

    Limericks and made-up words: the nonsense verse of Edward Lear.

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    Mar 14

    "The smell of books is one of memory’s most powerful messengers." via feat.

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  10. Mar 14

    Can you match the invented word with its inventor?

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  11. Mar 14

    Could you devise a unique app using Oxford Dictionaries data? Find out more about our API competition:

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    Mar 13

    Entering the world of homonyms, homographs, and homophones on :

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  13. Mar 14

    Word of the Day: athanor

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  14. Mar 13

    'The Word Detective' by former chief editor of the John Simpson is 's Book of the Week!

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  15. Mar 13

    What's the greatest thing since sliced bread? These bread-related idioms, of course.

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    Mar 13

    "How many words are there in the English language?" by

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  17. Mar 13

    Feeling ratty this Monday morning? Here are 10 historical insults from the you can throw around the office.

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  18. Mar 13

    Word of the Day: nova

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  19. Mar 11

    Word of the Day: Caroline

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  20. Mar 10

    Word of the Day: cacology

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  21. Mar 10

    Did you know that the first editorial assistant at the was sacked for industrial espionage?

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