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An Oxford Companion to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

Daniel Parker | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Zombies, Oxford University Press, Oxford University, Zombie Apocalypse, Oup, International Zombie Awareness Month, UK Entertainment, UK Culture, UK Comedy, UK Comedy News
Daniel Parker

As May is International Zombie Awareness Month, I offer my bloodied hand to guide you through the five things you need to know to survive a zombie apocalypse... armed only with some of Oxford University Press's finest online products and a ferocious temper. Are you ready? Let's go!

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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage - Still Topical

Annie Martirosyan | Posted 07.04.2013 | Home
Read More: Oxford University Press, Oxford World's Classics, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, David Crystal, Prescriptive, Lexicography, Henry Fowler, Oxford English Dictionary, English Language, Home News
Annie Martirosyan

The Dictionary on the whole speaks about the extraordinary skill and expertise of Fowler as a lexicographer and linguist. A thing about the Dictionary that endears most perhaps is the author's genuine enthusiasm.

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Lolz These New Dictionary Entries Are Totally Ridic

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Photobombs, Oxford University Press, UK News, English Language Arts, Oxford Dictionaries Online, Micro-Pigs, Online Dictionary, Poll, Slideexpand, Dictionary, Vajazzle, UK News

Lolz, listen up tweeps, here’s a hat tip to my OH, you have to check out this photobombing micro pig, it’s totally ridic! Mwahahaha! Still wit...

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Lolz These New Dictionary Entries Are Totally Ridic

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 23.08.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Oxford University Press, Photobombs, UK News, Oxford Dictionaries Online, Micro-Pigs, Online Dictionary, Poll, Slideexpand, Dictionary, Vajazzle, English Language, UK Universities & Education News

Lolz, listen up tweeps, here’s a hat tip to my OH, you have to check out this photobombing micro pig, it’s totally ridic! Mwahahaha! Still wit...

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You're Only Going to Understand What I Mean By Peng if You're My Kind of Person...

Professor Julie Coleman | Posted 15.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: American Slang, Linguistics, Peng, University of Leicester, The Only Way Is Essex, The Life of Slang, English Language, Ban Slang, British Slang, Oxford University Press, Language, Slang, Sheffield Springs Academy, Oup, UK Universities & Education News
Professor Julie Coleman

Newspapers have been reporting that Sheffield Springs Academy has decided to ban slang in an attempt to improve their students' employability. By all means teach them how to speak appropriately, but isn't that like telling children not to put peas up their nose?

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Worlds Aids Day: Why is Research Still Important?

Dr Martin S. Hirsch | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Aids, World AIDS Day, Sexual Health, Hiv, Oxford University Press, UK Impact, UK News
Dr Martin S. Hirsch

We are not near having an effective preventative HIV vaccine, nor is a cure for those already infected on the immediate horizon.

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