NEW YORK, July 3 (UPI) -- The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary Online said in New York they have added "chill pill," "bikini wax" and other new words to the language database.
LONDON, June 4 (UPI) -- The British publishers of the Collins English Dictionary announced there will be many new words, including "hoodie," in the ninth edition of the reference book.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The Oxford English Dictionary has legitimized pop people, polysexuals and hard-asses everywhere by adding the colorful descriptions to its online edition.
NEW YORK, June 22 (UPI) -- Oxford English Dictionary's latest online North American update now lists such terms as "dust bunny" and the television-spawned "yada-yada" and "speed dating."
CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The editors of the Chicago-based New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen "podcast" as their Word of the Year for 2005.
LONDON, June 20 (UPI) -- British potato growers Monday demanded the term "couch potato" be removed from the Oxford English Dictionary and replaced with "couch slouch."
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The word "Benjamin," meaning a $100-bill or large sum of money, is one of the new words in the British 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary.
LONDON, July 8 (UPI) -- Television, computer spell checkers and increased writing on the Internet are behind a decline in spelling, a British dictionary editor said Thursday.
LONDON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The updated edition of an Oxford mini-dictionary of words and phrases was published Thursday, and it includes such modern terms as "sex up" and moblogging.
LONDON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of English was published Thursday -- and SARS isn't an acronym anymore.
