At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford, 1991 ), 3 vols.

* Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

* The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ( Oxford University Press, 1991 ) ISBN 0-19-504652-8

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:

The Oxford English Dictionary considers it a " fanciful " coinage, but an 1893 speculation reported in the Chicago Tribune as to the origin of the word as one of its early attestations:

" One of the poems once universally accepted as his is " My Mynde to me a kingdome is ", which Steven May considers as possibly written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

The Language Report, compiled by lexicographer Susie Dent and published by the Oxford University Press ( OUP ) in 2003, considers lexicographic inventions like bandeaukini and camkini, two variants of the tankini, important to observe.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 ( in which he argues, against a theory of the consent of the governed, in favour of a theory of the lack of explicit rebellion ; following a Popperian view on falsifiability, Pettit considers that as consent of the governed is always implicitly supposed, thus trapping the social contract in a vicious circle, it should be replaced by the lack of explicit rebellion.

The Board of Trinity College, Dublin currently restricts its ad eundem awards to eligible members of the Dublin academic staff, or those who wish to register for a higher degree at Dublin ; Cambridge restricts its awards to those " matriculated as a member of the University "; Oxford considers applicants who are undertaking a course of study or fulfil some educational role at Oxford, or who have " rendered valuable services to the University or to its members.

She is very proud when she receives word just before she dies that her husband is to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, which she considers the greatest honor a writer can attain.

The new platform was to have been brought into use during 2011, and was to be part of the city and county councils ' West End Area Action Plan for the western part of the city centre, which also considers other rail projects such as Evergreen 3 and the Paddington – Oxford electrification.

Harold Jenkins criticised the idea of any direct personal satire as " unlikely " and " uncharacteristic of Shakespeare ", while G. R. Hibbard hypothesized that differences in names ( Corambis / Polonius: Montano / Raynoldo ) between the First Quarto and other editions might reflect a desire not to offend scholars at Oxford University.

The chief executive of Oxford University Press, Nigel Portwood, feels it unlikely that the third edition will ever be printed.

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

It was thought that they did coin the related term, " debug " though this is unlikely, since the Oxford English Dictionary entry for " debug " contains a use of " debugging " in the context of airplane engines in 1945.

However the river's name is unlikely to have derived from this behaviour: The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

The absence of any conclusion of the Super Cup before the season's end made the competition look even more farcical than before in the eyes of supporters and probably put paid to any possibility of a second Super Cup tournament being organised in the 1986 – 87 season, although the perceived failure of the inaugural competition and its unpopularity with the clubs made such an eventuality unlikely in any case ( had the 1986 – 87 Super Cup been staged, it would have been contested by Liverpool, Everton, West Ham United, Manchester United, Sheffield Wednesday and Oxford United ).

Nonetheless, the Oxford English Dictionary dates " Bombay duck " to at least 1850, two years before the first railroad in Bombay was constructed, making this explanation unlikely.

However, this seems unlikely as the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary of " dap " for a rubber soled shoe is a March 1924 use in the Western Daily Press newspaper ; Dunlop did not acquire the Liverpool Rubber Company ( as part of the merger with the Macintosh group of companies ) until 1925.

However later statements by Lord Sainsbury the then outgoing UK Science Minister that " no major science facility should be built outside existing sites at Oxford and Daresbury " made it appear unlikely that the project would go ahead.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

But Wimsey, provoked by a ball which clips his elbow, shows off the form which made him a first-team star at Eton and Oxford.

Like many of the constituent colleges of Oxford University, Mansfield holds a ball once every three years.

Merton is the only college in Oxford to hold a triennial winter ball, instead of the more common Commemoration ball.

Sphereing is also referred to as Orbing or Zorbing, and Zorbing entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 where it was defined as: " a sport in which a participant is secured inside an inner capsule in a large, transparent ball which is then rolled along the ground or down hills ".

When Lancashire batted on for too long against Oxford University at Oxford in 1990, Phil Gerrans, an Australian playing for Oxford, bowled a ball underarm.

In 1833 a grand ball was held in Oxford, NY, which feted the canal's approval.

The Book and the Brotherhood is notable for its unusual emotional intensity, its finely-drawn characters, and the magnificent, wide-ranging opening scene, in which Crimond appears at an Oxford ball and every major character in the novel is introduced.

A 1996 study by Ian Reid and Andrew Zisserman ( University of Oxford ) came to the conclusion that the ball was at least 6 cm away from being a goal.

After recent rain in Oxford, and with a swinging ball in hand, the Oxford UCCE bowlers were commendably accurate.

The earliest reference to ball games being played by university students comes in 1303 when " Thomas of Salisbury, a student of Oxford University, found his brother Adam dead, and it was alleged that he was killed by Irish students, whilst playing the ball in the High Street towards Eastgate ".

A Commemoration ball is a formal ball held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in the 9th week of Trinity Term, the week after the end of the last Full Term of the academic year, which is known as " Commemoration Week ".

There is no formal definition of a Commemoration ball, but the usual Oxford convention is to refer only to the larger, triennial balls as Commemoration balls.

They also got together again in 2006 for a one-off gig at a ball held at St Hugh's College, Oxford.