Alex Horne (Comedian) – How to invent a word http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/alex-horne–how-to-invent-a-word-1900477.html Image sourced from: http://www.celebritybusinessspeakers.com/speaker-catalogue/alex-horne/ Alex Horne (2010) set himself a goal of 4 years to get a word or words in the dictionary. “I am going to scatter a handful of verbal seeds into the language. These will be new, original, freshly coined words or [...]

Despite having no success in getting in contact with Oxford English Dictionary themselves even after a few emails the only communication I got was on Twitter and they tweeted back (13th November 2013), “You can find more information about contributing to the OED here: oxford.ly/SEEvxn” I was keen to create a small post in this [...]

I need to make sure there is structure in this project and understanding of how words are formed. And in keeping with the collaboration aspect of this module it made sense to get in touch with professionals in the field of linguistics, philology and phonetics, so I put my focus on Oxford University with the [...]

Following on from my post Collaboration with professional in linguistics philology and phonetics I connected with Viktor Pekar on LinkedIn, currently Research Scientist at University of Birmingham, but who in the past has been an Independent Consultant and Language Data Engineer for the Oxford University Press. He kindly agreed to work with me on this [...]