Tag archives: interactive
What were your top lookups in the past year?
As part of our occasional search monitor series, here’s a clickable word cloud displaying about 350 of your most-viewed words in Oxford Dictionaries Online. Instead of looking at the last month, we thought it would be fun to look at the most looked-up words since Oxford Dictionaries Online’s inception. Over the last year a lot [...]
Abattoir to zigzag: English words of French origin
To commemorate the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 we are looking at English words of French origin. Hover over the image below to discover a selection of English words derived from French, from abattoir to zigzag. Click on the words to go straight to the dictionary entries.
Goals galore but no parrots: a hundred-word football vocabulary
Fabio Capello, the Italian-born England football manager, was recently reported as saying that he could manage his players with just one hundred words of English. At the time there was much speculation as to which hundred words he would need to achieve this, and the BBC contacted Oxford Dictionaries for a list of the [...]
An interactive guide to Prince William’s ancestry
Prince William, or to give him his full name, William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor, is the eldest son of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is second in line to the British throne, after his father. William was born on 21 June 1982 and met Catherine Elizabeth (‘Kate’) Middleton (born 9 January 1982), his bride-to-be, while studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. [...]
Are you a n00b or a netizen?
Do you think a cookie is just something in your kitchen (or your tummy)? Would it surprise you to hear that phishing is an illegal activity? To you, is ‘browse history’ something you did during school when you were assigned more reading than you wanted to do? Volumes have been written on the effects of [...]
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