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We celebrate her birthday on 31 January (by the Old Style of dating; her actual birthday according to the Gregorian calendar would be 12 February), and in […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/eponymous-foods/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/oed-word-stories-rum/"> <img width="783" height="522" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-783x522.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-783x522.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-300x200.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-460x307.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-126x84.jpg 126w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-172x115.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-108x72.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Rum.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/oed-word-stories-rum/">Word stories: ‘rum’</a></h2> <p>The word rum is first recorded in 1654 in the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, where it is mentioned along with another of its names kill-devil: Berbados Liquors, commonly called Rum, Kill Deuill, or the like. The word itself is of obscure origin, being somehow related to rumbullion and rumbustion, words whose origins […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/oed-word-stories-rum/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/new-words-in-1813/"> <img width="783" height="522" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-783x522.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-783x522.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-300x200.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-460x306.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-125x84.jpg 125w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-172x114.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-108x72.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_10231555.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/new-words-in-1813/">From ‘carbonation’ to ‘navy blue’: which words came to life 200 years ago?</a></h2> <p>If the dawning of the New Year invariably brings you to brood upon the inexorable march of time, you find yourself in good company. Here at the Oxford English Dictionary, we are very aware of how what society does—and even how society thinks—is much informed by the movement from past to present, and onward into […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/new-words-in-1813/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="gap-box"> <div class="banner"> <div class="advert advert--mid">  <div id="div-gpt-ad-1471357663586-2" style="height:250px; width:300px;"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1471357663586-2'); }); </script> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/language-learning/"> <img width="783" height="522" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-783x522.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-783x522.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-300x200.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-460x307.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-126x84.jpg 126w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-172x115.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-108x72.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/language-learning.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/language-learning/">The challenges of learning a language as an adult</a></h2> <p>Ah, my teenage years! Spandex-clad 1980s rockers on 7-inch vinyl records, Senna and Mansell winning Formula One races, learning to code on a Sinclair Spectrum, and watching The A-Team, Dempsey and Makepeace, or Cagney and Lacey on the TV. Imagine, only four channels! And school. I can’t say I liked school a lot, being a […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/language-learning/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-profusion-of-words/"> <img width="783" height="522" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-783x522.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-783x522.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-300x200.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-460x306.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-125x84.jpg 125w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-172x114.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-108x72.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_82427647.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-profusion-of-words/">A profusion of words</a></h2> <p>Please note: several of the following links to dictionary content require subscriber access to the OED Online. The early modern period was an era of great change for the English language. According to the OED’s record, the number of words ‘available’ to speakers of English more than doubled between 1500 and 1650. Many of the new words […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-profusion-of-words/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-comic-quotation-quiz/"> <img width="783" height="519" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-783x519.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-783x519.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-300x199.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-460x305.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-566x375.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-126x84.jpg 126w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-172x114.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-108x71.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_55749934.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-comic-quotation-quiz/">A comic quotation quiz</a></h2> <p>Moliere wrote in La critique de l’école des femmes (1663) that ‘it’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.’ In the spirit of making people laugh, we present this quiz drawn from the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Edited by the late Ned Sherrin, the dictionary compiles words of wit and wisdom from writers, entertainers […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/a-comic-quotation-quiz/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="banner sec">  <div id="div-gpt-ad-1471357663586-0"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1471357663586-0'); }); </script> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/loose-or-lose/"> <img width="783" height="522" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-783x522.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="Loose or lose that weight?" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-783x522.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-300x200.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-460x307.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-126x84.jpg 126w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-172x115.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-108x72.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose-43x30.jpg 43w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/lose-loose.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/loose-or-lose/">Loose or lose?</a></h2> <p>Help! I am loosing the will to live with my smartphone! Aargh! I almost lost the will to live when I spotted the above mistake, but simultaneously wished that my Inner Spellchecker would give it a rest, so that I could simply appreciate the content of what I read rather than be distracted by spelling […]</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/loose-or-lose/" class="more"><span>more</span><b></b></a> </div> </div> <div class="post-box "> <div class="post-img"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/automotive-nostalgia/"> <img width="783" height="521" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-783x521.jpg" class="attachment-frontpage size-frontpage wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-783x521.jpg 783w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-300x199.jpg 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-460x306.jpg 460w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-566x377.jpg 566w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-126x84.jpg 126w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-172x114.jpg 172w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-108x71.jpg 108w, https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424im_/http://27ldk4j1esh2tto962ds2vk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000019746332Medium-43x30.jpg 43w" sizes="(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px"/> </a> </div> <div class="post-info"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131424/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/automotive-nostalgia/">Automotive nostalgia</a></h2> <p>A few weeks ago, when a character on TV mentioned his DeSoto, my daughter asked, “What’s a DeSoto?” “A car,” I answered, choking on my realization that there was no reason for a 25-year-old to have heard of a DeSoto. But I had actually ridden in a DeSoto—and not in an antique car parade. 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