According to a statement from the publisher, which assembles the Oxford English Dictionary ... It first appeared in Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden, which chronicles the author’s ...

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

is another Hiberno-Irish phrase which has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. “Morto”, short for mortified, a phrase regularly used by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly in the bestselling books ...