The Oxford Dictionary of African-American English will also include “old school,” or its variant “old skool” — characteristic of hip-hop or rap music born in New York City as the 1970s ...

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., will tell the story of Black people in a new way.

When the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (then published by American Heritage magazine) was released in 1969, the company marketed it to opponents of the counterculture.

A project of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, the dictionary will not just collect spellings and definitions. It will ...

The American Heritage Dictionary, which has been owned by Houghton since its debut in 1969, has four full-time lexicographers on staff; its latest edition, published in 2011, relied on a Rolodex ...

The Philosophy Behind the First American Dictionary In 1789, Noah Webster called on the newly independent United States to claim its own national version of the English language. By Peter Martin ...

Most people think of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary as a quintessentially British production, but if you pore carefully over the first edition, compiled between 1858 and 1928, you will ...

Oxford’s first-ever Dictionary of African American English is set for 2025 release and the first 10 words to be included in the upcoming workbook have been unveiled.

Noah Webster’s aforementioned American Dictionary defines it as “one who delights in promoting science or the fine arts.” The O.E.D. cites its connection to the Latin verb delectare, meaning ...