The Oxford Dictionary's choice for 2025's Word of the Year perfectly describes our perpetual online hissy fit, columnist ...

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Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for "woman" in its dictionaries to include more positive ways to describe a female. Shutterstock (CNN) -- Even the dictionary can be sexist ...

Oxford chose the word of the year from a short list of words that were all related to the environment. "It reflects it was a real preoccupation of the English-speaking world in 2019." Recent words of ...

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Sexist synonyms for "woman" in the Oxford Dictionary of English galvanized more than 30,000 people to sign a petition calling for their removal. A Change.org petition started in June by London-based ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

Earlier this year, Oxford University Press changed its entry for "woman" in its dictionaries to include more positive ways to describe a female. Shutterstock (CNN) -- Even the dictionary can be sexist ...