How would a person in the early 1600s call someone an idiot? "Half-wit" is tempting, but it turns out to date from a century-and-a-half later. "Chucklehead" is no good either (1731), but "blockhead" ...

Professor Christian Kay is not one for showing off. 'Scots are quite good at dictionaries,' she says in her gentle but precise Edinburgh accent. 'Pure, grim determination is our thing.' Quite good?

In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, ...

I may as well be a biased reviewer of David Crystal's books given that Words in Time and Place is the 30th book by the author to find a place on my special Crystal shelf. The importance of this latest ...

After writing reviews for CrackBerry.com for almost year and a half, one would think that I would have run out of words a long time ago.Well..... I guess I did! Unless you're a wordsmith, a thesaurus ...

Sharp has launched a new range of electronic dictionaries in the UK – the PW-E260, PW-E300 and PW-E500. All offering you content from the Oxford English Dictionary series, along with other features ...

IPhone users now have access to the New Oxford American Dictionary right in the palm of their hands. Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile media, announced an application for iPhone and iPod ...

The ‘Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary’ is finally being published ...

historical-thesaurus-of-the-oxford-english-dictionary Etymology and words are not merely a lexicologist's care but can become a healthy passion for everyone. The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford ...