Climate change is Children’s Word of the Year according to Oxford University Press (OUP). A third of children chose climate change (33 per cent) as their word of the year, narrowly followed by war (31 per cent) and almost a quarter choosing coronation (24 per cent). The research, which surveyed opinions from over 5,000 children […]
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Queen was chosen by children as their word of the year for 2022, according to research carried out by our department of Children’s Dictionaries & Children’s Language Data. Nearly half (46%) of surveyed children voted for Queen, making this the most popular choice from a shortlist of three words: Queen, happy and chaos. Across all […]
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13th September marks Roald Dahl Day, and, to celebrate, Oxford University Press has released its 13 Words of Bravery. These 13 words reflect the ways children today write about bravery and the context in which they use these words to feel empowered in difficult situations. Read on to find out more or download the full report here . The Oxford […]
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A petition has recently been published on Change.org about the number of nature words in the Oxford Junior Dictionary. We take customer feedback very seriously and have addressed the most commonly raised concerns below. Like you, we feel strongly that nature is essential to children’s lives and are encouraged to see that this is such […]
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Written by lexicographer Roz Combley There’s nothing like the real thing I was recently lucky enough to analyse the Oxford Corpus, a 55-million-word collection of children’s writing from the BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words story competition. Any lexicographer will tell you that once you’ve worked with a corpus—a wonderfully powerful resource of real language evidence—you […]
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