Countdown dragged into digital age as Dictionary Corner ditches trusted ...

Countdown dragged into digital age as Dictionary Corner ditches trusted ...
Today Susie said: “While I'll miss rifling through the printed dictionary and using Countdown's famous pencam, I'm excited that we will now be able to reflect the very latest changes to English by using an online dictionary that's updated every three ...
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Oxford English Dictionary selects 100 words that define first World War
As part of a project to revise every word in the Oxford English Dictionary, the latest quarterly OED update published today marks the centenary of the outbreak of the first World War. Editors have selected 100 words first recorded in, popularised ...
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'Adorkable' makes awkward debut in Collins English Dictionary
The dictionary said its use went on to peak in January 2012, and that the word "has now settled into a steady and rising pattern of use, establishing adorkable as a popular word in general use which is here to stay". The hunt for a new word saw Collins ...
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