Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and enti...
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made for...
Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of Englishis now updated and entirely res...
Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in ...
Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and ...
Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer,...
Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer,...
The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as wel...
Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cul...