Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project Salon talks to Sarah Ogilvie, author of "The Dictionary People," about the "unsung heroes" who ...

An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary.

Oxford Dictionary is criticized for its sexist synonyms for the word "woman," which a petition with more than 30,000 signatures wants to change.

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

Rizz is the word of year for 2023, according to the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary. The term deals with charisma and charm — and other rizzes are available, such as Stockard ...

“You wouldn’t normally think of a dictionary as a way of telling the story of the evolution of the African American people, but it is,” Gates said.

Oxford Dictionaries says its annual word of the year reflects the mood of the past 12 months and that it also seeks to choose something with the potential for lasting cultural significance.

The word that best captures the “ethos, mood, or preoccupations” of 2018 is “toxic,” according to Oxford Dictionaries, which this week crowned the acetic adjective its word of the year.

Oxford chose "climate emergency" as the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment.

What word or expression captures the 2019 mood? If you ask Oxford Dictionaries, it's "climate emergency" which the dictionary dubbed its "word of the year" for 2019.