After more than 32,000 votes, and a team of language experts, the Oxford Word of the Year 2023 is finally here! Learn more about the this year's winner.
Oxford Playhouse is delighted to announce the talented selection of creatives who will be on attachment with the theatre as part of the Playhouse Playmaker writing and Evolve Artist programmes in 2024. Led by award-winning playwrightClare Bayley,thePlaymakerscheme provides a year-long mentorship to ...
“’Brain rot’ speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time,” said Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, in Monday’s announcement. “I also find it fascinating that the word ‘brain rot’ has been adopted by Gen Z and Gen Alp...
It is almost certain that the main event in the reception in England of the formerly unpronounceable “low” word bloody (which first turned up in texts in 1540 and, consequently, existed in colloquial speech earlier) goes back to 1914, when Eliza Dolittle, the heroine of George Bernard Sha...
“We see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,” he said before the announcement of this year’s word on November 27. “What we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.” Sokolowski said that this year interest in the word authentic did not increase sudd...
A 46-year-old male patient presented to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Clinic of Duesseldorf complaining of eye pain for three months with significant worsening over the last 3 days, with reddening of the left eye, epiphora, photophobia, blepharospasm, and significant visual det...