The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has been unable to name its traditional word of the year for 2020, instead, exploring how far and how quickly the language has developed this year. "It quickly ...

Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. That’s the major takeaway from the Oxford University Press — the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) — in its ...

How do you describe a year with so many unprecedented events in one single word? Well, you just don’t. That was the conclusion that Oxford Languages made as it tried to name its traditional word of ...

Instead of crowning a single word as the winner, Oxford Languages looks at the pandemic’s swift and widespread impact on the English language. By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Languages’s annual Word of ...

The year 2020 has been so unprecedented that a single word can’t be used to sum it up, officials with Oxford English Dictionary announced Monday. In lieu of its usual word of the year announcement, ...

(CNN) – The Oxford English Dictionary had a hard time picking its traditional “word of the year” for 2020. In 2019, “climate emergency” was the OED word of the year, and in 2018 it was “toxic.” But ...

How do new words get into the dictionary? If you're a log, a foul or a lover of words, you probably already know the process for us common folk. You might not have a clue how the dictionary stays up ...

In this singularly extraordinary year, writers of the Oxford English Dictionary couldn’t choose just one word to define 2020. The language company broke with their annual tradition of picking one word ...