Blogging Brothers: Go Read “From A to Zimmer”!

Discover how words enter Oxford dictionaries in a new blog from Oxford University Press by lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

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If you want to know how a new word gets into Oxford dictionaries, or are interested more generally in the bubbling cauldron of modern English, check out the the first post of new blog from Oxford University Press, From A to Zimmer. That's Zimmer as in Ben Zimmer, lexicographer, editor at Oxford University Press, and brother.

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