Tag Archives: World English

Published: Twitter/X in the OED

An analysis of the emergence of Twitter/X as the predominant source of new language evidence in the Oxford English Dictionary in updates since 2018.

How Indigenous American words came into English

I’ve been deep in the OED documentation of borrowings and loanwords for my look at “tramlines” [see my previous post, and look out for a few more to come] and OED’s treatment of foreign, about to be naturalized, and naturalized words. I got curious about some of the Indigenous American words in my dataset, and […]