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David Charter, the then-Brussels correspondent forThe Times, now in Berlin, is thought to have written the first full-length work on Brexit, his bookAu Revoir Europe, published later in 2012. The Oxford English Dictionary, published by the Oxford University Press, is widely-regarded as the u...
The book was rejected by several publishes until Frederick Warne eventually took a risk and published the story in 1902 - a risk that paid off. Peter Rabbit was a huge success and readers loved hearing about Peter's mischevious adventures in the lush English countryside. As she got older, ...
If any of these bring a groan or three, the folks at Oxford University Press might say we have only ourselves to blame. As Oxford’s head of online dictionaries told TIME, “The dictionary reflects the way the language has changed over the last few years […] We run the bigg...
The question of what qualifies as a “fossil” remains open. The Oxford dictionary definesfossilsas “the remains or impressions of a plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form”. But this definition doesn’t encompass the broader use of the word. Eggshells or coprolites ...
Who coined the term personal computer?The Oxford English Dictionary says Byte magazine used it first,in its May 1976 issue.But Yale Law School librarian Fred Shapiro decided to do some digging on his own--with help from JSTOR,an online electronic database for academic (学术的) journals.JSTOR...
题目The Oxford dictionary has announced its word of the year.It's spelled…Actually,it isn't spelled at all,because it contains no letters,just a "face with tears of joy" emoji.行查且九书报直从上务压料 "The fact that English alone is proving not enough to meet th...
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: conspiracy: The action or an act of conspiring; (a) combination of people for an unlawful or a reprehensible purpose; an agreement so to combine, a plot. Quæ mala sunt inchoata in principio vix bono peragantur exitu : (4 Co. 2.)—Things bad ...
Question: The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'selfie' as a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. With this definition in mind, how often, if at all, do you generally take selfies? Respondents st...
This has led to the post-truth politics which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, refers to the cherry-picking of data to come to whatever conclusion one desires. Opinions of those in power positions are touted as “truth” simply because these authorities state what they want, ...