OXFORD, England (AP) _ Homer Simpson with an English accent? Don't laugh _ the beer-guzzling cartoon dad has hit the literary big-time. His favorite phrase has made it into the erudite Oxford English ...

If you like having the last word, you'll want to take note of the Oxford English Dictionary's newest word. "Zythum," the former last word in the whole dictionary — AKA the last word in the English ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University, will provide editorial direction to Oxford University Press as it devises a dictionary ...

There are few books in the world that most people have heard of. There are even fewer so recognizable that are 500,000 words long. That’s right, we’re talking about the dictionary. The Oxford English ...

Extreme politics and wars today are causing scientists to offer displaced colleagues office and laboratory space. In the 1930s, in the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War, similar ...

As formerly green forests turn into charred remains and glaciers melt away to reveal bare mountainsides, the effects of climate change on the landscape are hard to miss. But there are less obvious ...

You know, some yogalates could tackle those splendiferous moobs. Confused? Then turn to the Oxford English Dictionary, which has included the words among more than 1,000 revisions and updates for its ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has upped its midichlorian count (or its word count, whatevs). Credit: Lucasfilm/Bad Robot/Walt Disney Studios/Kobal/Shutterstock The ...

Our obsession with streaming TV shows and films is changing our vocabulary. Binge-watching and spoiler alert were added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of a June update, the dictionary ...

A Utah school is chuffed to bits to be accepting a major invitation from the University of Oxford to build a brand-new facility at the renowned English institution and send hundreds of students to ...