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‘A steamy wrestle’: Guardian article inspires play on Shakespeare and Marlowe collaboration

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What does ‘skibidi’ mean? Kids’ top slang words of the year revealed

Words such as ‘slay’, ‘sigma’ and ‘skibidi’ were voted as children’s favourite slang words, according to a survey by Oxford University Press

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OPINION - Rizz: The word of the year is all about cheerful, carnal appeal — you can’t buy that

The most charismatic man I ever met was the LA rapper, musician, designer and generational hero, Tyler the Creator. I was shadowing him during a spring jaunt in Paris for the gentlemanly fashion magazine, Fantastic Man. He’d just won his first Grammy. Many of the loose collectives of scrappy, visionary…

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Rizz is Oxford's word of the year for 2023. Do you have it?

If you're asking what "rizz" means, you're not alone. There's even a chance that you have rizz without actually knowing what it is.

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Got rizz? Tom Holland memes propel popularity of 2023 word of the year

Gen Z slang for charm or attractiveness sees off ‘Swiftie’, ‘situationship’ and ‘prompt’ in judges’ decision

The Guardian - UK

‘Making a book is an extraordinary thing’: Pip Williams on the invisible history of female bookbinders

The bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words shares the spark behind her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – filling the ‘blank spaces’ around the women who worked at Oxford University Press

The Guardian - AU

Queen, happy and chaos among children's top words for 2022

Three words were shortlisted but only one came out on top

Liverpool Echo

‘Queen’ is UK children’s word of the year for 2022

Almost half of the children surveyed by Oxford University Press chose ‘Queen’ as their top word, with ‘happy’ and ‘chaos’ in second and third place

The Guardian - UK

Oxford word of the year to face its first public vote

Three ‘words’ selected by Oxford University Press – ‘goblin mode’, ‘#IStandWith’ and ‘metaverse’ – can now be voted for online

The Guardian - UK

‘No longer appropriate’ Biff Chip and Kipper book pulled by Oxford University Press

Characters in the book described a foreign country as “scary” and the people as “unfriendly”

Evening Standard

Oxford University Press pulps ‘no longer appropriate’ Biff, Chip and Kipper book

The Blue Eye, which features ‘scary’ people in street market, has been withdrawn from sale after complaints

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