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Oxford English Dictionary(OED) announced on November 23 for the first time that it has chosen not to name one single word of the year, but many words for the “special” year 2020. Describing 2020 as “a year which cannot be neatly summarized in one single word”. OED said on Monday ...
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Professor of English Linguistics Bas Aarts writes about how the use of modal verbs such as must, shall and will has declined over time. Read the post Oxford English Grammar Course The three-level Oxford English Grammar Course by award-winning authors Michael Swan and Catherine Walter offers st...
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This paper builds on the work of many scholars who have demonstrated that the\udcoverage of individual works and authors in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is shaped\udby their literary status (see, for example, Schäfer 1980). Although this is now a well established fact, it does not...
The Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM. 1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press.The Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM - Simpson, Weiner - 1989 () Citation Context ...onducted by such authors as Partington (1993), Lorenz (1999), and Paradis (2000). Partington shows that absolutely has undergone ...