In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, ...

Sexist synonyms for "woman" in the Oxford Dictionary of English galvanized more than 30,000 people to sign a petition calling for their removal. A Change.org petition started in June by London-based ...

After writing reviews for CrackBerry.com for almost year and a half, one would think that I would have run out of words a long time ago.Well..... I guess I did! Unless you're a wordsmith, a thesaurus ...

At least not in the Oxford English Dictionary, the arbiter of the English language, which has stripped sexism from the definition of “woman.” The definition no longer contains usages examples such as, ...

Sharp has launched a new range of electronic dictionaries in the UK – the PW-E260, PW-E300 and PW-E500. All offering you content from the Oxford English Dictionary series, along with other features ...

Chief editor, Patrick Hanks Oxford University Press, 1,067 pages, $58 Recently, a friend and I attended a Toronto poetry reading. The star poet, one of those grizzled old parties whose work is ...

I may as well be a biased reviewer of David Crystal's books given that Words in Time and Place is the 30th book by the author to find a place on my special Crystal shelf. The importance of this latest ...

Many past iOS releases let you look up definitions with a built-in dictionary with “Look Up,” but with iOS 12, we get access to a built-in thesaurus as well. As a writer, I find this a godsend. My ...